New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 0377 - 0442

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Its sole purpose is to make the present-day Word of God accessible to all people.

Between 1937 and 1965 Bertha Dudde was permitted to receive and record 9030 individual proclamations on a daily basis.

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‘He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me .... and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him ....’ John 14, 21

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

At the request of many friends Bertha Dudde wrote the following biography in 1953:

I have been writing messages received through the inner Word since June 15, 1937. In answer to the many requests of my friends I will give you a picture of my earthly life, a short explanation of what I received spiritually, and my own feelings about all this.

I was born April 1, 1891, the second oldest daughter of an artist of Liegnitz in Silesia, today's Poland. I had a normally peaceful childhood, with six sisters in our parent’s home. I learned the cares of life at an early age. The desire to make money to help my parents made me learn the trade of a seamstress. As the financial needs of my parents continued, so did the burden, and in this way I made myself useful.

My parents belonged to different denominations. Father was a Protestant - Mother a Catholic. We children were brought up in the Catholic faith but never experienced pressure or force to follow the practices of the church so that each child in later years was able to pursue their own chosen course.

I myself was religious but could not accept the doctrine of the Catholic system although I respected the church. I could not represent something on the outside that my inner conscience had not accepted. So I did not continue to attend church, heard little preaching and had no knowledge of the Bible. I did not read any religious books or scientific literature and did not join any other group or religious sect.

Anyone knowing the Catholic teaching knows what a conscious struggle one finds himself in when he wants to release himself from it. I was not spared from this either. But the question as to what is the Truth and where it is to be found, remained.

Often when I prayed the Lord's Prayer I would beseech the Lord to allow me to find His kingdom. This prayer was answered in June 15, 1937, as I prayed quietly and waited for the inner voice. In this attitude I persisted often, for a wonderful peace came over me and thoughts which came to my heart, not my head, gave me comfort and strength.

Still I did not know that these thoughts were given to me until, in a strange dream I experienced something which later proved to be the Truth and caused me to write down these thoughts.

So on a certain day as I listened inwardly a stream of words came to me, which I wrote down. This was the first message I wrote which started like this: "In the beginning was the Word, 'a Te-Deum' to the Creator of Heaven and Earth."

Then came doubt, …. did you write this by yourself? In short, I have wrestled, prayed and gone through many struggles, but again and again the words came to me like a stream, a wisdom, which made me tremble. Then God Himself took away my doubts. He answered me and I acknowledged Him as our Father, in His Word. My faith grew, doubt diminished, and I received and wrote daily.

The contents of the writings were beyond my understanding. Phrases, which I had never heard of or read about, strange and scientific expressions and references continually came to me. Then came unheard of expressions of the Heavenly Father's Love giving refuge and providing enlightenment to all the questions of life.

The Words came to me in the following manner: After sincere prayer and a short period of composure I listened inwardly. Thoughts then followed coming to my mind, clearly, distinctly, and the words flowed smoothly always three or four, one after another, like writing a radio announcement or a weather report, slowly so that I could easily keep pace, writing line after line.

Now I write the words in shorthand as a dictation without having any constructive or intellectual part in it. I am in no way in a 'trance', nor do I even form the sentences, but it comes to me one word at a time, neither do I understand the context while I am writing the words down.

After days, sometimes weeks, I transcribe the shorthand writings into longhand without changing or correcting a syllable. Each dictation takes about half an hour. I must stress that this could not happen forcibly or in a state of ecstasy. It all takes place simply and consciously, without any excitement or influence of my own will. I can interrupt myself at any time and finish the sentence after hours or days without reading the previous writing the dictated words continue again.

My will is under no compulsion, all that I desire is to serve God and do what His will wants me to do.

I can truthfully say that I was led into this Truth, and these concepts were, in every respect, foreign to me. It was only after years that I found confirmation of what I received when I came to know the writings of Jacob Lorber. No one can imagine my joy when I discovered the literature of Jacob Lorber; ‘The Great Gospel of John’ and ‘The Youth of Christ’. Then I understood that other people were also given the Word of the Lord, that God had spoken to His children at all times and that God will continue to do this in His endless love and mercy.

I found in Lorber's writings the same as was given to me. I often could not understand the Word that came to me, but in His love the Heavenly Father gave me the explanation. How wonderful are the innumerable manifestations in which the Father displays His exceedingly great goodness.

It became clear to me that my limited education due to lack of money, and my lack of time to read good books or visit performances, became my advantage. I was now able to concentrate on my work from early morning to late at night, and each day I received that precious spiritual Word without knowing for whom I received it.

It is because of my ignorance of the Bible and the Catholic doctrine that I accepted the Word from above without resistance. In my experience, an earnest Catholic or Protestant whose knowledge is rooted in dogmatic theories is too much bound to dogma to accept and embrace divine revelations without resistance.

Still, there are scientists at several faculties who earnestly discuss these divine teachings with increasing interest. Their interest not only concerns the irrefutable explanation of the origin of matter and the possibility of its dissolution, but also the principle of the wrong teachings of different religions, systems and confessions. In the messages I received, these errors are recorded and everyone is urged to give instructions concerning these doctrinal errors whenever there is an opportunity. But everyone is free to take the Lord's Word to heart or not. But whoever understands the spirit in the Father's Word and does not act accordingly increases the distance between himself and the Father even more. When he does not follow the warning Words of love he puts himself inevitably under the law. He will also, in the same measure, lack in grace by disregarding God's commandment of love.

In God's grace people are led anew to the Gospel, which emphatically points out the purpose of man's being. For the merciful love of God seeks to save all who still can be saved before the turning point comes. And it will come. The end-time which seers and prophets have proclaimed is now here. According to the revelations given to me, the Lord does not differentiate between His children. ‘Come ye all to Me’ sounds His call and blessed is he who hears His call and follows Him. God loves His children. He wants to make them all happy, even when they do not want to know Him.

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

Bertha Dudde was permitted to leave her earthly shell on September 18, 1965 to return to the Father’s heavenly house.

Table of Contents

0377 - Transmission of intellectual knowledge.... The Lord sets barriers....

0378 - Clarification of the precondition for the soul's union with God.... Help the erring....

0379 - Divine powers.... Outflow of the love of God....

0380 - Word of God.... Power.... Grace.... Unlimited gift of the Spirit....

0381 - Persevere in the will of God.... Revelation.... 'My Father'.... Reward....

0382 - Resistance to evil through desire for God .... Spirit of light .... The Word of God as weapon ....

0383 - Purity of heart.... Inner humility.... Self-knowledge....

0384 - Flower garden.... Heart of the human.... Virtues.... Poem....

0385 - Spiritual vision.... Distribution of the Word of God in it's purest form....

0386 - Prediction.... Laws.... Earth Mission.... Teaching of Christ....

0387 - Prediction.... Daniel.... Wrestling of the spirit-beings from the sphere of light....

0388 - The conscience....

0389 - My guide and protector.... Spirit of Control.... Student - Teacher....

0390 - Precondition for the degree of maturity.... Spirit of research.... Dream?.... The Father's care....

0391 - Seclusion from the world.... Monastery?....

0392 - Refuting doubts about writing.... Faith.... Signs....

0393 - Research - error.... Love - truth.... Master builder....

0394 - World Life.... Faith.... Love of God....

0395 - Reminder to help the spiritually ill....

0396 - Feeling for natural beauty and it's purpose for people....

0397 - Evil thoughts.... Knowing God consciously.... Degree of maturity....

0398 - Rock-solid faith need to be close to the Savior....

0399 - Activity of love.... Sorrow.... The Savior is present in love....

0400 - Leaving the mother church....

0401 - Decision.... Love on earth or sacrifice....

0402 - Dangers of the world.... False luster....

0403 - Divine Power.... Energy.... Correct desire....

0404 - 'Oh come all to Me....'

0405 - Disadvantage of cultural development.... Worldly wisdom.... Forces of nature.... Charities....

0406 - Father's words

0407 - Security of the truth.... Importance of knowledge.... Guiding spirit....

0408 - Activity of the friend.... Effect on souls in the beyond.... Eager listener....

0409 - Regarding earthquakes and disasters....

0410 - New formation of beings.... Army of creating spirits.... Problems....

0411 - Activity in the afterlife.... Participation in the teachings.... It's value....

0412 - Cycle of Things.... Rhythm.... Three times sun-effect....

0413 - Father's comforting words.... Admonition to firm faith....

0414 - Love.... God's Word.... Field.... Seed.... God's protection....

0415 - Work of the demons.... Love as a weapon.... Poem....

0416 - State of readiness.... Submission of will....

0417 - Grain - harvest - reaper.... Secular pleasures....

0418 - The lovely earthly valley.... Clockwork....

0419 - Reference to teaching activities.... The wise - the ignorant....

0420 - Present and past.... Redemption....

0421 - Success of the researchers.... and inner voice.... Link.... Predictions....

0422 - Connection between the earth and the beyond....

0423 - (Before the headland)....

0424 - Father words....Love.... Appearance.... Participation of those in the hereafter....

0425 - Shaping the youth.... Intervention by God....

0426 - The sages of antiquity....

0427 - Undermining the teaching of Christ....

0428 - Explanatory note to no. 410....

0429 - Love....

0430 - Infinity.... Eternity.... Size of the work of creation.... Creative spirits....

0431 - Appearance of the Lord.... Strengthening in suffering.... Suspension Railway....

0432 - Recognition in the Hereafter.... Disguise of the light-beings.... Self-reproach....

0433 - Closeness of God.... Earthly goods.... Renunciation and sacrifice....

0434 - Will - Faith - Knowledge....

0435 - Agreements from acquaintances....

0436 - De-religionizing the State....

0437 - Sacrificial works and works of love....

0438 - Flowers.... Transformation of the beings.... Work of creation....

0439 - Danger of worldly pleasures....

0440 - Strong Faith.... Power of Judgement.... Prediction....

0441 - Spirit of God.... Germ of the love of God....

0442 - The sun.... The spiritual sun.... The Divine mercy-sun....

Transmission of intellectual knowledge .... The Lord sets barriers ....

B.D. 0377 from April 13th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

He who selfishly desires to be accepted into the circle of the knowing, abuses the goodness of heaven .... he who never tries to give of what he receives .... To these the Lord has shown His love, but they do not show the same love to their fellow men, and so the soul can also never detach itself from matter; this knowledge is then the same as that acquired by itself ..... It is not reckoned as progress of the soul, but only as a dead reception of what is lively transmitted to it.

Tell this to those who remain in matter for the sake of earthly advantage, refer them to the words of the Lord: .... The most important thing in life is to follow the teaching of Christ, and never can he follow this teaching who does not willingly give what he receives. In your immediate surroundings it will become clear to you how the following of the commandments of God works, but the one who willingly passes on the words of the Lord, will always remain in blessing.

People do not pay attention to the need of their environment, and so they do not give help where it would be so necessary .... Whoever lives in grace, knowing about the love of God, should be concerned to help them and, in the inner knowledge of his own need, learn to understand the need of the brothers .... The will is often not lacking, but some earthly children are close to their own well-being, but that of their fellow human beings does not particularly touch them .... This is not love as the Lord preaches ....

Self-interest will diminish such a man's own merits, and limits will be set for him from hour to hour in the recognition of Divinity. Self-love tarnishes the intensity of the light .... but it is required of the souls walking in the light to contribute to the enlightenment of the spirit of so many erring ones. And when then the hour comes which the Lord has chosen for justification, then many voids will be revealed, where active love was the innermost commandment. Only the consciousness of being graced by the Lord, always giving oneself full of love to one's task and to also allow others to participate in this grace, will give man the maturity that is necessary for love-work in the hereafter.

"Let it be My concern", says the Lord, "where I want to set the barriers of spiritual knowledge .... no-one is to believe that I will dispose of Myself and My will ...." And where restriction is commanded, there I will certainly intervene at the right time .... but those who I appoint to work in My vineyard - you must not command those who have not yet fully recognised grace.

But whoever will make an effort to accept My word, him I will admit to My flock; who serve Me .... I will guide them Myself, so that the way to faith becomes easy for them .... To give oneself in all love to the concern for the salvation of the earthly children will always be more beneficial than brooding over what human knowledge cannot fathom .... and therefore accept the words, given by Myself, faithfully and into your hearts .... then you go the right way ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Clarification of the precondition for the soul's union with God .... Help the erring ....

B.D. 0378 from April 14th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

If the Spirit of God stirs in you, then what was dead until then will live, the soul will arise and rise .... it will leave it's cover and always seek only the light, and what is then born of this light will never pass away in eternity .... And so the Lord has given all beings on earth the ability to receive the Divine Spirit, when only the desire becomes lively and man sees an extraordinary task in his existence. Because the connection with the Divine Father-Spirit must be established again and again in order to attain eternal life, the association will have to be preceded by laborious work .... the work of the purification of the soul, which is to finally receive the Spirit of God.

This purification of the soul can again only take place when it's desire turns away from matter, when it willingly gives up everything that has hitherto bound it, in order to exchange something far more delightful for it .... in order to enter into exactly this connection with the Divine Spirit .... Nothing may decisively influence the soul, it must reflect out of itself on it's task, it must want to progress on the way of the knowledge .... it must also simultaneously put the will into action .... to unite with the heavenly Father. The so formed will then always remains subordinate to the Divine will ....

Afterward the Spirit of God no longer permits a decline, but whoever once treads this path and is finally in the will of the Lord, remains connected with Him for time and eternity. The Lord will never leave such a soul to itself .... the first requirements are fulfilled, and now such a soul strides constantly upwards and remains in the Divine mercy-sun .... but there is one thing it should not miss .... to draw the attention of it's own kind to the warmth of this sun of grace .... For darkness so boundlessly shadows so many beings - that every child on earth who is gladdened by the Divine Spirit, is to turn to these full of mercy, so that the morning also breaks over these and many of them may go toward the light.

The Lord will reward you a thousand times over for the love that you give to these beings, because it is necessary to save all these from eternal damnation. And whoever has received the Spirit of God into himself will recognize how unspeakably difficult some souls are to untie, and will therefore meet them lovingly and give them what he is able to, so that like him, they may receive the Lord in brightness of spirit, to remain in Him for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Divine powers .... Outflow of the love of God ....

B.D. 0379 from April 16th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Your life path will always be governed by the laws that your heart dictates you to fulfill .... You must walk the same way as all those whom I have commanded to stand up for My teachings. In the same sense you must also work for Me, but always let the concern for the salvation of souls prevail .... Beware of your own judgment of those who are in need of this care; I have destined all My children for eternal happiness .... as soon as these turn away from Me, My love is doubly concerned for them, and in this world the struggle is immeasurable, where it concerns these souls .... If divine powers rule around you, which have nothing in common with the earth, and you let their blessings pass you by, you will have to struggle again for a long time before such grace flows to you .... for what is of value besides what is of above .... and what desires entrance into your heart .... In such need of the soul the Lord has mercy, He gives what you are willing to take .... He fulfills your heart's longing and awakens the Spirit .... So everything that enlivens you in spirit is an outpouring of My love for you, and when you understand the deep meaning of My gift, then you are free of all cares.

Never leave the way because I Myself walk among you .... you will walk in My power, and where this works, your heart does not need to fear. The deed shall be important to you because through the deed you prove to Me that you recognize the highest in Me .... when you follow My words, you confess My teaching .... Then your work on earth is only visible by exercising My will .... Bring your life's work in harmony with My will, then nothing will frighten you anymore, because I want to dwell among you in such a way that you should recognize your Divine Master ....

Who only strives for himself, does not use the power given to him .... He searches for things that are hidden from him, as long as love is not active .... But if this is the driving force, then he can form himself, he will be able to use his knowledge for this time on earth in a joyful way .... he will willingly put himself under exile, which in turn redeems him .... he will know thanks to his Creator for time and eternity, because already on earth, fulfillment of his longing .... has become him to draw immeasurable grace from the fountain of eternity .... of Divine Love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Word of God .... Power .... Grace .... Unlimited gift of the Spirit ....

B.D. 0380 from April 17th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Follow My instruction .... You will find everything confirmed what you were told .... that you are among people to whom the gift of God is inexplicable and who nevertheless long to hear the words. And now you experience in it the wonderful that the Lord makes contact with you according to necessity, because He looks into the hearts of those who long for Him. And where their thoughts turn upwards, there the Lord soon shows them the right ways .... Behold, it is the will of God that His Word .... be fulfilled for the future. You will always unite when it is necessary to serve Him, and for the time on earth you stand in His protection .... And again the name of the Lord alone remains the gate through which you enter His kingdom .... Because if you confess Him, you remain in His grace, but if you let His word die away and do not receive it into your hearts, then you lose this grace, and without mercy you lack strength, and you will tire in the struggle of life .... and the soul's burden is terrible .... it struggles and does not become free of its fetters when it lacks strength, and where then is the benefit of your existence on earth? How can you recognise the Lord where the Spirit remains shrouded in darkness? ....

The words of the Lord convey His grace, and His never-tiring love prevails visibly when you only beg the Lord for it, .... He does not deny this to anyone .... but again and again the desire must prevail to get into contact with the Lord; you can escape all evil, if only the will is present in you, and likewise you can receive the gifts of the Spirit if you have desire for it .... because God the Lord divides unlimitedly towards him whose desire is unlimited.

He has His word ready at any time .... who only wants to hear it and always opens his heart, will be richly considered and will no longer need to hunger and thirst for the truth, and in the same way the power will be received by whoever obeys this His word, because it then flows living strength to him, so that the promise comes true: "I will refresh you with My word ...."

Only a little trust, and you can achieve endlessly much, because the Lord helps you in every need .... And therefore do not resist when the reference to the Word of God enters your life .... then pay attention to this reference, and you will achieve everything to reach maturity .... only your will must be good and gladly submit to the Divine will .... and then you feel the hand of your Father in heaven, which stretches out towards you, and whoever takes hold of it will be rightly guided until all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Persevere in the will of God .... Revelation .... 'My Father' .... Reward ....

B.D. 0381 from April 18th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Blessed are those who always remain in My will. Behold, there is probably nothing of such value on earth as the everlasting perseverance in God's will. And as you have been given the power to think and act according to your own will, so it will be the merit of everyone to sacrifice this your will to Me completely .... But then you have chosen the best part .... so will increase your knowledge, your power and your faith, you will know how wise and how well you will be led .... You have handed over your responsibility to the Lord when you submit yourselves to His will, and now you are in good hands.

My child .... The Spirit of love will be revealed to you, so that the whole being of the Godhead .... fills you up. For such hours your heart gains a supernatural receptiveness and then everything that comes to you in spiritual teachings will delight you so infinitely ....

My child .... The Spirit of love will be revealed to you, so that the whole being of the Godhead .... fills you up. For such hours your heart gains a supernatural receptiveness and then everything that comes to you in spiritual teachings will delight you so infinitely .... You will be taught such teachings in a light and vivid way, which you cannot grasp in any other way .... but easily and understandably to your senses you will receive information about things that will amaze your mind and spirit .... The greatness of the Divine creation will be recognized by your spiritual eye in view of these revelations, and this penetration into Divine work takes away every doubt for you .... then the love of God will seize you with such force that your heart turns more and more in loving desire to your Savior, and the more closely you now desire Me, the closer I will be to you and protect your body and your soul.

My greatest desire is to completely possess your heart as well as the hearts of each one of My children .... then only when you have given this completely to Me, I can form it according to My will, only then has My love and grace influence on such a heart, when nothing and nobody except Me has a share in it .... what is offered to Me will be seized by Me and not given back .... because it is God's will that everything is subordinate to Him .... and whoever says "my Father" to Me with devotion is to feel Fatherly love in all it's fullness. What I have prepared for these My children is already destined for them since eternity.

But if you fall victim to the mistake that you already desire to receive the reward on earth and you do not learn to be modest in patience, then eternal happiness will hardly await you, but you have already been sufficiently rewarded the deeds on earth in the joys of the world. Therefore do not worry about goods of the earth, willingly give everything away, and with all your power and strength of will only strive for the eternal reward by you accepting My guidance and always only wanting what My will is. Because he who looks after you during your earthly existence certainly wants the best and most beautiful for His children ..... He does not want the soul to perish, but that it has eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Resistance to evil through desire for God .... Spirit of light .... The Word of God as weapon ....

B.D. 0382 from April 19th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Anyone who always lives his life looking heavenwards will resist the dark forces. Just a single thought of the Saviour and you will be released by Him from such influence. It will immediately create a deep gulf between you and the latter, since everything .... Heaven and Hell .... is subject to the Lord. The enemy expects to find a willing creature in you into which he can transfer all vices and lusts in order to get control over it .... yet if he meets with the slightest resistance as soon as a person’s heart longingly turns to the Saviour, the power of evil will be broken and he will be released from evil forces without having been harmed. However, the power of evil shall make you realise how vigilant you must be if the struggle of improving your soul is not to be unsuccessful. Give preference to the beneficial spiritual beings surrounding you .... let them protect you and let them take care of your physical shell and your soul .... then the powers of darkness will have a hard time with you. They will try in vain to undermine your purity or to make you compliant for their disgraceful cravings .... Think of the Saviour in every danger and you will already have overcome the one who wants to plunge you into disaster. And therefore it is always advisable to comply with the Word of God during your short time of existence on earth, which in itself will give you strength and is protection against evil at the same time.

For it is given to you by God so that you shall reach the kingdom of God .... hence it must also be, at the same time, the best weapon against the darkness which is, after all, the most adverse power to eternal bliss .... Therefore beware of everything which, being opposed to God’s teaching, wants to throw people into spiritual darkness and thereby prevent them from taking a true insight into the Lord’s never-ending actions of love .... The adversary will always find supporters where dense darkness dominates, for everything that strives towards the light is shunned by him, and, if you sincerely appeal to the Father to enlighten your spirit, the power of evil will become increasingly weaker the more sincerely the human child is governed by its longing for spiritual light .... since darkness has never yet triumphed over light .... Consequently, it is also left up to your own discretion as to whether you take the path of light or darkness, but let it be a warning to you that the Lord is only with you in the light, that other forces preside in the darkness and that you must only ever strive towards the light and the eternal Deity if you want to escape the power of evil and be taken care of by the Father Himself. The spirit of light and truth will always reign over everything which is subject to darkness. The wise, however, will make an effort to become enlightened and once they are, they will be protected against all onslaughts by the enemy and will overcome the world forever.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Purity of heart .... Inner humility .... Self-knowledge ....

B.D. 0383 from April 20th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

You will be given a full measure for your earth career, the more diligently you must strive to prove yourself worthy of this measure, and so everything that is to bear witness to your love must also be applied where the spirit of discord prevails .... because can a child, which is in the grace of God, be worthy of it, if he does not always endeavor to express a pure sound, where the understanding for it lacks .... Spiritual connectedness is guaranteed to everyone who strives for it ...., but only those who cultivate the purity of the heart are allowed to know the deep truth.

It is of great value for you to be able to receive in boundless devotion what others still have to struggle for exceedingly, and in spite of everything, the inner voice must also announce to you if you are lacking, otherwise a maturing .... a perfecting of your soul might not be possible. To work incessantly is the only way to reach the state where union with the eternal Deity is destined for you. Instead of the realization of your own inadequacy, however, you must never again allow arrogance ....

This is the danger for every being exceptionally gifted by God, that it very soon loses it's inner humility and then loses grace. Beware of all things, for God's love of the Father has set you such a glorious task that you must do everything to remain in His grace. Only then, when you feel low and small, will the power in you grow beyond you. Then you will fulfill in the sense of the Lord what you are destined for.

Submit yourself completely to God's will, so His providence will always care for you, and you will still be able to work as a blessing, because everything that the Father does for His own, is arranged in wise foresight, to help them to light and knowledge. So the fruits of your labor will be given to you already here on earth and one day in eternity, but always recognize yourself, and strive for the purity of your heart, which always guarantees you the love of the heavenly Father ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Flower garden .... Heart of the human .... Virtues .... Poem ....

B.D. 0384 from April 21st 1938, taken from Book No. 9

In the garden of the Lord many flowers blossom that need diligent care, and all these flowers the Lord lets grow under His supervision. Every seed in this garden was sown by the Lord Himself, so that a noble plant would develop from it, which in turn would flourish and blossom for the joy of countless beings .... So also the Lord has chosen many a child on earth to lead a joy-awakening existence among His creatures, which also arose out of His power, like wondrous flowers that make people happy ..... They are nurtured and cared for by a loving hand and yet through their existence they exert an influence on so many hearts, which is equal to that of an exceedingly beautiful flower with it's scent and visual magic.

A human being seldom wants to do without the pleasures that blossoms and flowers in every species offer him .... so also the blessing, which emanates from such human children, will not be willingly missed .... just like many people who are depressed by the monotony of their life, who would like to make this life blossom and this is what such a being brings about by trying to intervene to help everywhere and to be, like flowers, active in the true sense of the word. Love your fellow human beings .... and give them joy. The greatest joy, however, is when flowers of love are planted and nurtured, singing honor and praise in ever more beautiful flowers of their Creator ....

So the heart of every human being should be truly adorned with flowers .... this heart should be a garden of God, where all virtues are cultivated and carefully guarded like flowers and blossoms, in order to then shine and delight both the eternal Creator and His creatures .... the children of the earth, who think they are already on earth in such an environment in paradise that pleases their eyes and heart, and who will always strive to cultivate such a well-designed garden carefully, so that it also pleases the Lord, who in His love has created everything beautiful, so that the human soul recognizes in it the great kindness of the Father and His everlasting loving care for everything that arises in the universe ....

(So all flowers bloom only for your joy on earth .... and every flower shall become for you a symbol of that .... that you complete yourselves more and more in color, form and fragrance .... that you - what every flower does - always turn to the light .... Those who never enjoy the scent of flowers are never chosen to cultivate such glory, born of God's love).

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Spiritual vision .... Distribution of the Word of God in it's purest form ....

B.D. 0385 from April 22nd 1938, taken from Book No. 9

The Spirit of God will fill you so that you can only want what is My will .... Thus the Lord speaks to you and will draw your heart more and more to Himself .... Everything that is subject to Him will have to fulfill the law, according to which every creature must, for the duration of its earthly existence, escape the world's bustle and turn to the eternal goal. If you can do this with an ever-lighter heart, that you give yourself completely only to the Lord and Savior, then you will learn to understand the Divine teachings more and more ....

Using all your willpower, you will also be able to gain insight into areas that require spiritual vision .... And this spiritual insight is the success of a heart that loves the Lord dearly and seeks truth .... You will be informed shortly .... But still you have to struggle continuously for the maturity of your soul, since the Spirit of God is to fill it and you draw from such union with the Divine Spirit a strength, which is necessary for you for further perfection.

Which work is still assigned to you, you can't imagine today, but the teachings of God must again be propagated from mouth to mouth for decades, in order to then again take possession of the innermost heart of mankind .... This task is the basis of your spiritual work .... the spreading of the Word of God in it's purest form .... The words of love should speak and reawaken love everywhere, because where the Lord Himself dwells through His Word, there it must come alive and force it's way into the hearts of mankind by it's own power ....

Humans want the bread of heaven at any time, but if it is offered to them as before, they easily refuse to accept it .... but what is offered to them in living representation .... what is offered to them so quite tastily and acceptably, they take up gladly and keep it in their hearts, if it once found acceptance .... Must not therefore the bringer of the Word of God also be led by the Lord Himself .... so that he is only the executive power of a higher will? ....

Can the Word of God be rejected when it is revealed to the human child with such visible evidence of supernatural intervention? .... Must not the worst doubter become perplexed and confess to himself that he want to deny a power that cannot now be denied? .... Has the love of the Lord ever expressed itself so visibly that it conveys to mankind what is so exceedingly beneficial to them? .... That the love of the Lord makes use of a willing human child to reveal this His work .... And the Lord is constantly active and instructs all His servants who are devoted to Him to announce His word because through this word all are to recover who until then walked through life on earth sick in spirit and did not yet recognize the purpose of their existence on earth.

Without this grace of God the darkness of the spirit would be much worse, but so the Lord seeks to bring brightness to the earth, and so many who are of good will already walk in the grace of knowledge. The will is free .... Infinitely rich is person who turns to God the Lord, sacrifices his will to the Divine will and now feels the outpouring of the Divine will constantly in his own heart. Happiness will certainly be granted to him on earth because he works from the hour of knowledge on with the employment of all his strength for him whom his soul loves .... for the Divine Lord and Saviour, who is also close to this earthly child in endless love until the end of his days ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Prediction .... Laws .... Earth Mission .... Teaching of Christ ....

B.D. 0386 from April 23rd 1938, taken from Book No. 9

In a few moons the revelation will come true for you that a spirit will arise which wants to proclaim against the Spirit of God, and when he will set the words, just as it says in the Bible ...., then you will recognize by it that all old things will be rejected and something new will arise in the same spirit, i.e. under the same words, but this is not from God, but is given to the people by the adversary to destroy them. In this time some earthly children will ask themselves in tortures of conscience, how they have to place themselves to everything .... Then the serious admonition will go out to you all: Do not detach yourselves from faith in the Lord Jesus Christ .... He alone will show you the right way ....

If you accept His teachings and are ready to confess His name aloud, not a hair of your head can possibly be bent by other powers, because the Lord protects those who are His .... The true power and strength is only given to you through true faith .... And search for this there, where all salvation comes from .... above over the universe .... You will not find salvation of the soul in earthly laws. He who strives for the earth alone neglects to accomplish the most important task. Only following the teaching of Christ is the task that has been set for you for your lifetime.

When you now turn your attention more to worldly laws, when you seek to do justice to these in the first place, then soon the time of grace, which was granted to you for the maturity of the soul, passes by in useless work. You will indeed comply with your earthly duty, but to what benefit .... Where should the blessing rest there, since the heavenly Father alone can reward you .... but the earthly power can fulfill nothing of what it always promises you, if the blessing is not granted to you from above .... And how can the heavenly Father take care of a matter that is not at all in His will ....

How can something be good for mankind if it is directed against the commandments given by God .... if a teaching is rejected which is to be preserved in it's purity through millennia .... through generations .... Jesus Christ came into the world to redeem mankind, the work of redemption continues and lasts until all eternity .... but mankind wants to invalidate what has been until then, it wants to turn away from this doctrine and wants to form a new doctrine on worldly views, which is not what was given to mankind by Christ anymore ....

The more methodically such a teaching is built up, the wiser it is submitted to people, the less foundation it will have, because the Lord does not want it, that such powers concern themselves with the improvement of a doctrine which is far nobler than a work of God .... and that it is replaced by something worldly, which better meets the requirements of the people. Then the new teaching, which is man's work, will completely deviate from the true word .... and it's career will be equal to worldly measures .... it will arise .... it will be changed and supposedly improved, and it will finally collapse in itself ....

For this is the fate of every teaching that is not from God, and therefore can never again be under Divine blessing. For only the pure teaching of Christ can be preserved through thousands of years, and even if there is talk of alleged errors, these are only due to wrong understanding and wrong interpretation, but it will always remain the same and also cannot be eliminated by such reorganization. Because people forget one thing .... that a work of God cannot be arbitrarily dismissed, but rather prevails in all times and through every struggle unaltered and remains eternally unchanged .... because God's works cannot be improved ....

When people would strive for this, they are biased in great error, because the belief that they can act against God's commandments is already a completely misguided thought, which only the adversary alone can give to mankind, but will never be executable. God's Word .... the teachings of Christ, remains inviolable through all eternity, and people will never ever be able to intervene destructively without harming their soul. Watch therefore for the signs from above, which are unmistakable and give you news of the will of the Lord .... Follow them, that ye may be saved from unbelief, but turn yourself ever more intimately to the teaching of Christ ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Prediction .... Daniel .... Wrestling of the spirit-beings from the sphere of light ....

B.D. 0387 from April 24th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Those who feel called to reform an existing world order will be judged before their end .... They will fulfill the prophecy of Daniel in the lions' den, who warns the world against interfering with Jehovah's will .... According to this, a lowly creature will defy the Lord and will want to rise above the Lord, and that will destroy him temporally and forever. Because as in foreseeable time everything will change .... as everything will pass away, which testified of former greatness, then also in the spiritual world soon a reversal will make itself valid, which will also noticeably affect the earthly children .... because the spirit-beings seek with all power to take possession of the thoughts of the earthly children ....

They make the utmost effort to gain entrance with them to make use of the short time, when they are allowed to work for the souls of men, in every conceivable way. A great harvest is to come, which the Lord wants to have, and although the world still holds innumerable souls captive with it's charms, the desire for spiritual goods will still become more and more active in them because under the influence of the good spirit-beings, a visible ennoblement of the human children is achieved.

For forces are involved, which have taken their way from the sphere of light to the people, and which are infinitely able to make souls compliant, and which never slacken in the struggle to win souls for Christ. In this way, however, resistance will also be given to the hostile powers .... those who have only the slightest will in themselves to enter the right path will be wrested from them .... And to direct the will in man to divinity, innumerable beings strive in tireless spiritual work .... and their reward will not be small, because every soul is of incomparable value to the heavenly Father, since it is a part of the eternal Deity and that is why the struggle for these souls is so tireless.

If the adversary now prepares a plan to corrupt people in droves, and if, in order to carry out this plan, a planned reshaping of Divine laws is striven for, then anybody who strives for this, inevitably falls prey to the judgment of God .... Because his action is despicable, for it is not only the ruin of his own soul, but also because he strives to lead thousands and thousands of people astray and completely excludes action according to the will of God ....

Because everything is subject to the eternal Creator, and so He will also know how to prosecute at the right time all those who are subject to the hostile power and presume to influence the spirit of man completely erroneously, so that God in His mercy must use extraordinary means on mankind .... that He must first give them through proofs of a rare kind a clear picture of the actual purpose of being human .... But the love of the Lord never ends, and it always finds souls that are turned to the Lord or have not yet found the right understanding in their hearts, but are willing to submit to a higher being .... The Lord lovingly cares for these souls until they have recognized Him .... He does not let them suffer harm, because His love and goodness lasts forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

The conscience ....

B.D. 0388 from April 25th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Conscience is the true guide to eternal life .... And the one who listens to it, as his inner voice admonishes and teaches him, will not need to fear going astray. And if one of the children goes astray, then it truly did not pay attention to what the Father demanded through the voice of the heart, and so it can only be explained when the call of conscience becomes weaker and weaker .... and finally every warning is stifled in man. Then man has to blame himself if it becomes so difficult for him to obey the commandments of God .... For his indifference to the inner voice threw him from the right path ....

The bodily ear of humans would rather receive everything else .... It does not want to hear any admonitions or warnings that came to it from within, from the heart. And so slowly this voice became quieter, to finally say nothing at all, because the call of the world was much rather obeyed and drowned out this inner voice. If a warning passes the heart and ear of man unheard, then also no excuse will be found, and likewise such a man who does not fulfill what the inner voice prescribes to him, will have to walk in darkness, .

God the Lord created man so that he can recognize when he wants to .... He has given him for this purpose a constant control of himself in the voice of his conscience .... If he listens to this, it will very soon be clear to him what the purpose and goal of his life is. And if he now conscientiously obeys this voice, then knowledge will also come to him .... it will always guide him, and man does not need any other signpost as long as he does not fight against this inner voice, but observes it as a constant reminder from the Lord ....

And how sensibly the Lord has created you that you are to form yourselves and for this purpose He gave you a constant companion and therefore none of you remained without the proof of His favour .... i.e. that each of you earthly children really understands this inner voice well and therefore cannot have an excuse to have remained without warning and admonition. You all can think, and don't you all have to feel in your hearts what is right and what is wrong? .... And will you not try, if possible, to always do what is right? ....

If you are constantly and repeatedly admonished, then you must be grateful to the heavenly Father, who makes His will known to every child through the voice of conscience, although it is correctly recognized by even a few. He speaks with every single one of you, and so the work of the Deity on you people starts .... through the voice of conscience, free will is not hindered because you can accept it or also not hear .... but then you will stifle the fine impulses, which connect you with everything spiritual, and your struggle on earth will be far more difficult.

The one who bends before the Savior with love will hear the loving words of the Savior in the voice of his conscience and will joyfully fulfill all His desires, and so the voice of conscience will be for him the true pillar of all spiritual thinking and experience .... .... because the one who obeys this voice will become more and more enlightened in spirit and heart, and he will never lack the strength to open the gate to eternal bliss, because he will then act exactly as the inner voice dictates, which is the voice of God ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

My guide and protector .... Spirit of Control .... Student - Teacher ....

B.D. 0389 from April 26th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Hear the words of your Lord .... Your life henceforth is established. A pure spiritual exchange will take place whenever your heart desires it .... You will hear Divine teachings, and the grace of the Lord will give you the full knowledge of what you receive. Because there are not few, which are ready to give to you .... who all would like to take part in your spiritual work .... they recognize ever more the task, which is given to you, and in eager striving they are anxious to obtain spiritual property through an intimate connection with you.

In the multitude of teachers and commissioned messengers of God surrounding you, there is one who corresponds to your whole nature and is very devoted to you. He turns to you again and again with full participation, paying attention to your work and encourage you in your striving. For his greatest task in the hereafter is for those who willingly consecrate their services to the Lord; he is constantly striving to develop them. Whatever spiritual teachings you now receive is conscientiously controlled by him .... and if he looks after you and your work, you are in good hands.

The various beings that surround you are equally concerned about you, since each one wants to work through you .... in order to exercise their love-activities on the ignorant souls entrusted to them through an earthly child that is compliant with them. The spiritual constitution of people is in urgent need of the support of dear spirit-beings, but these find so little hearing with men and still much less direct help through willing earthly children. If now a soul has so connected itself with the hereafter that it has become receptive and willing for spiritual teachings, then so many spiritual beings want to take possession of such a readiness .... All want to make themselves known and are therefore always near you ....

But your guiding spirit .... your leader and protector, must consider you according to your powers .... your will is probably good, but your powers are not yet strong enough .... The love of the Lord sends you His Word unceasingly, and so you will be trained and become receptive to Divine teachings and wisdom, which will soon come to you easily and effortlessly, if only you devote yourself to your work always with love and trustingly surrender yourself to your spiritual protector ....

He has taken it upon himself to submit to you all the teachings of the Savior, and his concern is for you without interruption ..... By virtue of his exceedingly great love for the Savior, his loving activity is also an extraordinarily moving one and encompasses all the souls who submit their will entirely to the Lord .... There he is able to have an effect on the hearts and to stir up love for the Divine Saviour in them until protector and protégé complement each other in this love in such a way that the mediation of everything spiritual only becomes easier and easier and the being on earth learns quite easily to understand the otherworldly transmission and dedicates itself in fervent love for the Saviour more and more devotedly to it's assignment.

Because the degree of love is always decisive of how far the Divine teachings are received in the human heart .... And if the transmitter of all spiritual exercises his work of love on a child willing to love, this child will become ever increasingly more passionate in love with the Savior and will then always receive all Divine wisdom, all teachings and instructions in the heart in such burning love .... And so such an earthly child must now form and develop ....

The student must become similar to his teacher. The only task that a teacher sets for his pupil is to be solved to the satisfaction of the divine teacher, and therefore the spiritual power that has been assigned to you as a leader and protector, and that performs it's office with great joy, tirelessly tends to and teaches you .... The being that always surrounds you, that guides your thoughts, is well-disposed towards you .... It is the Lord's dearest servant John ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Precondition for the degree of maturity .... Spirit of research .... Dream? .... The Father's care ....

B.D. 0390 from April 27th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

In this consecrated hour the Spirit of God embodies in your bodily shell and reveals to you everything that you are destined to receive today. You do indeed believe, and it is wise of you to persevere in the will of the Lord .... But for the experience of everything spiritual, for the complete penetration into the creation of God, a degree of maturity is a condition, which you must strive for daily, in order to sooner gain this great grace, to be initiated by the Lord into the miracles of the heavenly kingdom.

So today you will be given an explanation of how you can acquire this degree of maturity .... and what everything is necessary to meet the demands of the Lord and Savior, who distributes His grace immeasurably to those who long for Him .... You shall not lack His power, therefore follow our instruction and turn trustfully daily to Him for His support .... that He may strengthen your faith, your power of love, your humility, and last but not least, beg Him for His mercy - because without this, your struggle is too hard.

To the researching spirit the reaching of this degree of maturity is only possible to a limited degree .... it does not strive in the heart, but begins it's work intellectually and can only have success, if it has besides this a pious heart, which looks in the universe for the Father (in his heart). But to leave aside all intellectual desire to recognize and only deep in the heart struggle for the possession of true Fatherly love .... and from this arises deeply humble faith and make an effort to do everything out of intimate love what is pleasing to the heavenly Father .... that brings you into that state in which the light ignites you and will shine so brightly that you feel and recognize the Spirit of God in your hearts.

So the Lord by far prefers that you place yourselves under His protection, so that He can now work in you according to His will, rather than that you try to acquire a rigid knowledge through research in remote areas, but with which you neither delight the Divine Father nor bring yourselves into a spiritually mature state .... You will achieve much more and that much more effortlessly if you are aware of your helplessness .... For the Father in heaven considers all who feel poor in spirit .... To these He brings His gifts unmeasured .... and the abundance of these gifts ensures a spiritual knowledge to a high degree.

For your striving on earth, the Lord will grant you a grace as well, but it should be in your will to accept it .... He will make your gaze wander in a dream to that land, and you will be assigned a task there, which you may or may not be able to fulfill .... A heartfelt prayer for enlightenment sent to the Lord that you may find strength to choose and desire what is right .... Your heart may well hesitate in your concern for the welfare of your fellow men, but do not think of earthly worries .... Let concern for eternity always come first .... In such hat, in the protection of the Father, you leave yours behind ....

But if you find in the work of your soul such a blessing-filled, deeply satisfying activity that all other earthly worries are tiny compared with the spiritual riches that you reap, you go the right way. Let it be enough for you: The Father cares for all those who commend His true children to Him .... How then should He leave you in distress if you strive to serve Him .... and only Him. With all His love-fervor He will embrace you and be balm to your heart in earthly woe, but you must love Him in the first place and willingly give up everything else for Him, because you receive it tenfold and a hundredfold again from His hand, what you have sacrificed for His sake ....

So pray and wrestle without ceasing, that you may receive the highest blessing and be allowed to see the infinitely beautiful bliss prepared for you by your heavenly Father .... He alone can give you the most glorious thing, if you only love Him alone and are able to willingly separate from what is dearest to you on earth, and then the Spirit of God fills you and guides you, and then you reach the highest degree of maturity, which enables you to look into the glory of God ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Seclusion from the world .... Monastery? ....

B.D. 0391 from April 29th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Cast all your cares onto the Lord .... Behold, if you follow Me I will know how to take your suffering from you, and during days of inner contemplation you will receive the constant flow of strength that I always have at your disposal, and thus you will know that the Father is close to you if only you ask for Him .... because I want to give to you what you desire. Behold, My daughter .... The suffering of the world is the result of the sin of the world .... If you strive for God’s reward you will be far less exposed to suffering on earth .... then you will only have to bear what you voluntarily accept for the sake of other people in order to alleviate their suffering, and so I will doubly bless this suffering. If you believe that you will enter into God’s glory without having acquired your final maturity of soul .... thus, if you strive for the perfection of your soul but prefer to withdraw from all earthly suffering, you will hardly be able to enter the state which will elevate you to Godlike beings.

Anyone who participates in Christ’s act of Salvation, who carries the cross imposed on him .... who sacrifices all his suffering to the divine Saviour without grumbling and complaining, will thereby constantly move in divine grace and his departure from this world will be a glorious one. For this reason I did not instruct you to withdraw from the world, which is indeed perilous everywhere, rather, you should willingly accept your cross, let its dangers make you stronger, rise above them and as conqueror of this world become an example to others. You should try to gain the Lord’s loving kindness and His mercy which will equip you with the necessary strength and grace to cope with all worldly demands while nevertheless enabling you to free yourselves from your restraints. As I grant My grace to everyone, because every child may draw from My love’s fountain of blessings without limitation, you are also given the power to resist the world ....

Behold, My child, nature is governed by many different forces .... the Lord uses them all so as to give people the opportunity to mature. The purpose of these natural forces is to awaken and to shape the concept of good and evil within the human being .... The same applies to the dangers of the world which are also permitted for the sake of a final choice of direction .... either for good or for evil. This detachment of the soul from the constraints of darkness needs to be aspired to and done entirely voluntarily. For this purpose, however, evil must be able to exercise its influence too, for if a soul does not know evil, the state of perfection without a fight would be valued far less than if it were achieved by constant struggle .... Although there is sufficient opportunity in every situation in life to fight evil, the power of darkness will certainly predominate in the commotion of the world .... it will try to approach the human child from all angles, and the merit of such soul will be far greater .... The earthly children’s love for Me, their Creator and Saviour, is indeed a fine testimony for all those who want to serve Me, but a life in seclusion without this love would be a mere escape from an environment especially created for the purpose of humanity’s perfection, which then would not result in any blessing for the person .... because the criteria and stages of temptation would not be overcome but avoided .... And to maintain one’s love for the divine Saviour amidst the commotion of the world is very enjoyable indeed .... To renounce earthly joys and cravings due to this love will result in a child who is pleasing to God on earth already, who will also be carefully looked after by the Father and lovingly and paternally guided past all obstacles in life. You humans on earth should also consider that you yourselves chose this state of embodiment on earth .... That you were willing to accept every burden on earth in order to achieve the degree of childship to God, which is meant to shape you into Godlike beings ....

Although it is up to your free will to then withdraw from your designated fate, and your good intention to serve Me is not to be condemned either .... but you are depriving yourselves of the opportunity to achieve a degree of perfection, since you consciously abandoned this opportunity after all. The human being matures and shapes himself the more willingly he accepts the suffering of the world .... thereby becoming a bearer of the cross and voluntarily walking the narrow path, which has no boundary and can be easily exchanged again for the broad road .... the earthly joys and pleasures .... in contrast to the broad road which makes a crossing on to the narrow path impossible. And thus the former is indeed significantly more commendable for your soul, which is in need of deliverance and light.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Refuting doubts about writing .... Faith .... Signs ....

B.D. 0392 from May 1st 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Behold, My child, the regular receiving alone already gives you the strength which you need, and so every receiving is followed by the strengthening which you ask for. Because to a willing child I grant the grace all the time and stand by him, as his heart's desire is only towards Me .... It has an extraordinary power to turn to Me, and you will feel this power in that spiritual union where your heart separates from the world to offer itself to Me ....

A regulated activity like your earthly one at least allows the assumption that your spirit can form easily and thus becomes receptive .... i.e. understood in human sense, that a kind of knowledge of the mind - or as humans believe it, a kind of imagination has pushed itself into your spiritual life .... But these doubters or deniers only wanted to consider once how difficult it is to create a manifestation of this type in a natural way and how much thinking and brooding would be necessary .... and how then the contents could not withstand a serious examination when torn apart ....

They want to figure out how these your letters can be denied or not recognized probably due to a lack of knowledge or also from the feeling of "knowing everything better" .... yet however nobody will ever be able to exhaustively judge it, because it is not simply just about the contents. He may well deny it, but then always only because he does not want to accept it .... But he cannot seriously refute what you have written down, and he can never completely justify his refusal. A small hint would be enough to silence all these doubters, but how should the development of the soul-support for these people proceed ....

How often already a proof has been given to the people through regular communication of the beings of the hereafter with the inhabitants of the earth. For those who believe, knowledge shines, because only on this basis was it possible to maintain such a connection .... Faith .... deep faith, is a prerequisite, and only through this can progress in the spiritual be achieved .... For this world, it must be enough for you to share in the blessings of such a union only at certain intervals ....

It will be offered to you more frequently from now on, and you will soon become aware that these extraordinary communications are only of advantage for you. You let yourselves be ingrafted into a world view, which has nevertheless little and no value for eternity .... you do not see the course of the time .... Not how long it lasts, and you remain hanging on an unsolved question .... You will ask yourselves: Why such a wrestling during just this short a time on earth .... And you can give yourself the answer to this question .... You do not remotely consider yourselves to be what I want to see in you .... as My children .... how do you want to become a part of what the Father has prepared for you? ....

And therefore a non-acceptance of the Divine Father's words or a conscious refusal is nevertheless only a lack of spiritual ability .... How many recognize the Divine Creator from that which surrounds them, how many have realized what their relationship is to the heavenly Father .... and how many still do not have the right trust in Me .... these grieve Me .... They believe they can walk without Me and spend so many years uselessly on earth .... Oh what folly .... to ignore the hand of the Creator and yet to want to fathom what is well hidden behind all creation! ....

And if you do not take this path of faith, how will you be able to grasp the last explanations .... These are only to be accepted in your hearts on the basis of faith, otherwise all efforts will be in vain. Like empty sounds, the words fade away in the ears of those who cannot believe. How far away are they still from true knowledge and how far away from true love .... For once this love for the Savior seizes their heart, they suddenly understand, and what fruits faith then produces, you will once recognize by those whom I love ....

Remain loyal to Me .... be true apostles of My teaching, give to Me whenever you are asked to, and so grace will constantly flow to you, just as I bless everyone who not only loves Me, but also includes in this love all his fellow brothers and sisters on earth .... that he gives where he has to give, because his heart presses him .... but not out of self-interest .... because this does not entail a blessing. And so everyone will feel in his heart what his office is .... and he will also feel how he should walk on earth to complete this life pleasing to God ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Research - error .... Love - truth .... Master builder ....

B.D. 0393 from May 2nd 1938, taken from Book No. 9

To those who love Me, I do good without turning away .... and therefore take care that you do not live in want one single day, and remain in My love. Mankind looks for a way by which it believes leads to the recognition of the Godhead, and therefore easily goes astray, because this way should be found in the heart, but not through research and fathoming of the intellect .... And so very few human beings find the right result .... it always undermines truths, but the spirit of the researcher will never be completely illuminated. I give those who remain in My love a teacher Myself, and then a full knowledge of the Divine truths is certain for them. So I lay the foundation stone for you at all times and wait only for your full will, that you would build on it ....

Does the Spirit of God move in you that you long to receive, that you accept what you have received into your heart .... that every day lets it flow to you anew, which lifts your spirit .... then the building will progress well and this can no longer be torn down by earthly power. For every building has it's master builder, and where this master builder is your Savior Himself, the work must also succeed and remain in existence for eternity. Nothing of what I Myself have given My blessing for and what has arisen in My will, can be destroyed ....

Let yourself be reminded of the words of the Lord: He who builds and works for eternity will not need to fear to see his work go to shame .... The most glorious result that can be achieved on earth .... an incomparable valuable .... is to be a co-worker of the Lord and to help countless souls to gain the Kingdom of God. Blessing on earth and heavenly bliss one day will be the reward for such work .... Your present work is in stead of activity useless for eternity, and for endless times the children of the world will hear the words which the Lord Himself speaks to them through a child devoted to Him.

This is an unspeakable grace for the earth, that the Lord cares for His little sheep and wants to give them news of His nearness and His readiness to receive these little sheep into His flock. Hear His call .... and follow it .... Respect His servants, and do not let all the admonitions the Lord conveyed to you through them go unheard, then you too will learn to recognize the nature of the Godhead and take the right path ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

World Life .... Faith .... Love of God ....

B.D. 0394 from May 2nd 1938, taken from Book No. 9

It comes, as the Lord determines .... As long as man remains in inactivity, his soul will not be able to form. It cannot get rid of it's fetters and remains what it was at the beginning of it's embodiment on earth .... a being that has not felt the benefit of the light on itself .... In itself world life has little value and yet is regarded as the main thing in life, and a struggle for this worldly life keeps the soul more and more from going through the spiritual school.

And so the soul can also never speak of progress, if it does not express itself in such a way that it becomes ever lighter in the soul .... Then the splendor of the world fades before this light, and man has overcome as soon as he has rescued himself from the fetters of the world .... and has made his way through to an unshakeable faith and can now accomplish a reshaping of the whole being. Again and again the evil forces will try to bring about an apostasy .... but man must be strong in faith and ask the Lord for help, then the soul will be redeemed through the Saviour's great love, which is expressed everywhere where the earthly child does not turn away from the Word of God and where it confesses itself to the Father in all simplicity of heart as a child ....

The love of the Lord is immeasurable .... it reaches into infinite expanses .... it grasps innumerable beings .... and delights those who are deeply devoted to the Savior .... Thus the love of the Divine Father recruits incessantly among It's earthly children .... no human understands this for as long as he still stays on earth, as the grace of God is acquired directly through love and this then again brings the people on the right track .... how out of this love also a submission to God's will develops and how salutary the words of the Lord are, which the willing child may then receive .... All this must give man a strength that lets him go further and further and safely on the way to his eternal home ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Reminder to help the spiritually ill ....

B.D. 0395 from May 3rd 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Have mercy on every being that you meet walking in darkness, because it is enough to bless you, if you help them to find the way to the light .... Your lunatics are already suffering here and far more still in the hereafter. You will have no easy work on them, but the Father in heaven rejoices over every soul that you bring to Him. In these surroundings there are earthly children .... who are likewise in need of light. Walking on earth has been easy for them, they therefore did not grasp so firm a faith to find and enter the true way out of this faith.

It gave them the world at all times, and this was of little benefit to their spirit. The Lord instructs all who want to serve Him, to be active toward such people. Your creative power is strong and will be under God's blessing both spiritually and physically .... Never be content to accomplish only what is necessary, but strive unceasingly to reach the height, for only constant striving brings you upwards, and a slackening or a tiredness is always a step backwards.

Whatever is demanded of you, you will always be able to master .... But in the spiritual you yourself have to struggle to receive an always brighter light and also to be able to let this radiate onto your fellow men. Always pray for the other where you can .... This itself blesses, and soon you will be able to rule where you have served. You will understand it well when you consider the iron willpower that is your own and that you can use to achieve what you have set out to do. You had to endure a short period of servitude, but the duration of this is in your hands ....

The more you wrestle yourself, the easier the annoying shackles fall, and you are free. But therefore have mercy on those who do not recognize in which freedom-chains their soul still languishes. See, these souls will once thank you fervently, but the struggle for these souls is not easy .... it takes patience and love to point out their condition .... but God provides every willing child with strength, which use will be put on your heart. Therefore be creative and active. That you walk the right path, is the heavenly Father's concern, if you intimately entrust yourself to Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Feeling for natural beauty and it's purpose for people ....

B.D. 0396 from May 3rd 1938, taken from Book No. 9

You are ruled at times by beings that you attract through thoughts that are concerned with the creation of the universe. These are the beings who are granted the power over everything that surrounds you in nature on earth. They also put some of the sensation into your heart, so that it swells and gets excited as soon as nature around you is of special attraction .... You all know the feeling of happiness that takes possession of you, and this at every season of the year, but especially when everything arises anew and becomes green and blossoms.

The being tho whom all these are subordinate, connects a good spirit with the earthly children .... They are always excited to give mankind news of the eternal Godhead, and so every leaf, every flower, every blade of grass .... everything that delights the human heart in nature, is only a visible sign that points to the Divine Creator, to whom all creating spirit beings are subject. Where these miracles already emanate such a delightful power on your emotional life, there every thinking person must come closer to eternity, if he does not consider all these miracles as something commonplace and takes little notice of them, as the state of affairs has unfortunately taken the upper hand with people ....

These in turn will find it difficult to get the eternal truth explained through the miracles of creation .... The obvious signs with which the Creator works all this will make no impression, and the so hardened human hearts are evil .... because they lack the first basic concepts which make a deep understanding possible. So the heavenly Father puts the sense of beauty into the heart of all of you .... The more you cultivate it by learning to look at everything around you spiritually, the easier you will be able to understand that the feeling for beauty in you also triggers the feeling of happiness ....

But vice versa it will hardly be possible to offer you something if you cannot gain anything extraordinary from such apparent work of the spirit-beings .... When you walk blindly through this beautiful life on earth and are not able to recognize the thousand wonders, which surround you daily. The spirit-beings, which let everything arise around you, are well-disposed towards you .... their goal is .... like that of all higher developed beings, likewise the struggle for the souls of darkness, and they apply all means available to them, so that man is stimulated to think and through the play in nature a question forces itself upon him: .... What is the connection between man and all that surrounds him? ....

Once this question has been raised, then a slow recognition begins, which is vividly supported by these spirit-beings, because the concern for these people is also close to their hearts, and they are therefore constantly endeavoring to have an enlightening and pleasing effect on humans, in order to awaken the feeling of a union with God in these, from which then the light of recognition is ignited and now the earthly existence in such an enlightened state is exploited for eternity .... It is the will of the Lord that the emergence of nature each year stimulates you to think, that you reflect on why and for what purpose, according to the earth, splendor is brought before man's eyes and what is man's task in the midst of this environment ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Evil thoughts .... Knowing God consciously .... Degree of maturity ....

B.D. 0397 from May 4th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

"Get away from me, you evil thoughts!" .... Apply this sigh of impulse when you are afflicted by such, when your inner peace begins to waver, and you will be freed at once and will be able to turn to the Lord with confidence. Thus it eludes your knowledge that a respective persistence in such thoughts delivers you up to hostile power, and that you must therefore make every serious effort to escape from it. The means the enemy uses to win you are so many and varied that you truly cannot pray and wrestle enough to resist the attacks. A little word or even the smallest act of love frees you from such violence, because love is the strongest weapon against all evil.

So now turn your full attention to us and listen: The being that God created remains eternally imperishable. If now the Spirit of God wants to fully dominate this being .... If this being is to be nothing but a pure form of light, then the being must stand in such a degree of perfection that now the Divinity can take possession of it. But each being is subject to the same law of freedom, i.e. it has perfect freedom over itself, and is now able to use this freedom rightly and to turn to the height out of completely free will, it will find the highest possible support from above and will thus be able to form itself into a God-like being ....

The Godhead, however, who dominates everything in the wide world space, again lets those impulses have an infinite variety of effects on man, which awaken in him the consciousness of and the urge for the Divine .... Because an unconscious working begins already before the being embodies itself on earth. The soul initially forms itself to a certain extent only so far that it can then accept a physical covering, and in this only now the conscious fight with the hostile forces begins .... But the more the consciousness of a divine power now fills man, the easier he will find the fight against his corrupters.

And in order to now reach an extraordinary degree of maturity on earth, man is to make use of Divine grace, which is offered to him and flows to him continuously, if man makes an effort to do so. Everything must first be wanted by the human soul, only then it can work in it .... Man is completely free to accept what the highest Being itself offers him to support the struggle on earth .... or to reject it and not to make use of it.

What a small blessed effect the latter now has on you human children, you will understand, because not one is able to reach such a degree of maturity .... a stage of perfection - that the eternal Godhead could recover Himself in this being .... So you are commanded again and again to wrestle and implore the Divine grace, which is granted to you unmeasured and is unspeakably beneficial to you, if you want to educate yourselves in such a way, in order to achieve eternal bliss .... to be united with the Divine Father-Spirit ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Rock-solid faith need to be close to the Savior ....

B.D. 0398 from May 4th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

My dear child, why do you fear and tremble .... see, so many graces are granted to you that your heart should only rejoice forever, and yet you do not yet believe .... it is dark in your mind because you give room to doubting thoughts. Put all your worries into the heart of your Lord and Savior, and you will be comforted and calmed through life. Just one word and your heart will beat with joy .... because you do not yet recognize the power of Divine love .... You do not know what fire of love can consume you if you feel the closeness of the Lord only once .... Acquire this immense happiness by making yourself worthy of it ....

And to this belongs in the first place a rock-solid faith, because without this you cannot connect deeply inwardly with your Savior .... only what you experience from deepest faith, makes you worthy of the highest luck. The love of the Divine Savior wants to draw every human child to Himself; it also wants to let it gain insight when his heart beats so hot for the Savior that in this love, the Lord wants to give the earthly child fulfillment of all longing. But where is such a deeply believing human child who loves the Lord and Saviour above all else ....

They take offence at the slightest stone, and again and again they have to struggle for the grace to be allowed to dwell in the presence of the Lord .... And so you encourage yourselves too little where you give in to such inner doubts and thereby make yourselves unworthy of the love of the Father. He who has prepared a kingdom for you for eternity is always near you, but only when you voluntarily give your heart to Him, .... when you long in deep love for Him to enter your heart, only then can He take up residence and bless your heart ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Activity of love .... Sorrow .... The Savior is present in love ....

B.D. 0399 from May 5th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

"Those who are Mine will see the glory of God, and they will receive all the blessings of heaven .... Therefore respect one another and love one another, because through love you become that which makes you My children ....". You have many opportunities in every situation of life in which you can exercise this love .... but no-one will be spared to collect merit in the activity of love, therefore the Lord lets those who ask come to you so often on your life's journey and tests you how you behave towards them ....

And always in the voice of conscience a hint is given to you from above. If you now listen to this voice and thus make use of the opportunity, soon your soul matures in this love, and thus you again and again recognize love as the only true way to the heart of the Father. Remember His walk on earth where the Lord sought to win all people through love, you also have to make an effort to always only follow the course of your heart, which will always admonish you to be active in love. The guideline for this life is always the walk of Christ on earth ....

If you can follow this and His words, you will easily reach what the goal of infinite beings in the universe should be. You enter through love into the grace of the Lord because everywhere where love prevails, there the Lord Himself is among you, and in such nearness of the Divine Savior, His grace flows in you, and then this struggle on earth will become easier and easier when Divine grace supports you. This should all those who are pressed down to the earth with burden and sorrow well consider ....

If they turn more and more to the work of love, the Lord gives them so much strength that they soon recognize this in themselves and all the worries of everyday life no longer seem oppressive to them ..... They are far more likely to have these taken from their shoulders and life from now on is easily bearable. The eternal Creator wants to reveal Himself in all these worries of the earth .... Whoever walks through life without thoughts of the Godhead, should be made aware of a power that dominates him .... From which he cannot escape by his own strength.

If true love now underlies the actions of man, then he will also soon be able in this love to recognize God the Lord in everything, even in what presses and burdens him .... and once he has recognized this, then the Lord Himself pushes Himself into his heart .... since He always stays where true love is the driving force of all actions. When you now cannot recognize the Divine Creator and still act continuously in love, then your soul has already long since recognized, and it would be only a short time until your spiritual eyes are completely opened.

Therefore cherish love as the first commandment, take care of each other .... don't let any of your fellow men lack where you can give, and last but not least be concerned about their spiritual well-being; if you yourselves came to recognition, then help them also to come to this knowledge, and all this you can do only through love, which is an outflow of God, the heavenly Father from eternity to eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Leaving the mother church ....

B.D. 0400 from May 5th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

The biggest foolishness in life takes place when people withdraw from the church they belong to. The circumstances the clergy find themselves in nowadays are not easy .... they do everything possible to help the church keep its sheep and yet one after the other isolates itself and often no longer finds its way back .... It is then exceptionally difficult to influence the souls of such deserters even though this is and indeed should be every clergyman’s task. Now the Lord puts the gift of teaching into the hands of His chosen servants .... not to push the clergy out of office but to help them, so that people outside the church also receive the blessing of God’s Word. But who listens to and accepts the Word ....

It is indescribably difficult for someone having voluntarily separated himself from the church to submit to God’s commandments .... It is not as if he did not have the opportunity to walk the right path .... If his heart dictates what is pleasing to the Lord and he follows this voice he will very soon reach a level which can lead him to much further ascent .... but usually people who have separated from their mother church are not at all interested in purely spiritual matters. They deny everything and are therefore in an extremely unsafe position by delivering themselves to evil powers, since they give up all support which the church had still provided to them and are far more likely to become entirely unbelieving, and their whole direction of thought only applies to the present .... but they deny life after death, which is generally the reason why they have separated from their previous belief. If these people are confronted by great hardship one day they won’t know where to turn .... then they will look for their God and don’t know where to look for Him ....

The clergy will never again be able to keep up the old discipline, it has lost the strength which makes the task of the messengers of God’s Word easier, because they themselves often lack true profound faith as well .... They cannot any longer support with holy eagerness what they are teaching, and thus one thing explains the other. God’s Word has to come to life in the messenger .... anyone speaking to the people has to be permeated by true love for the Saviour. Then every word flowing from his mouth will be spoken by the Lord Himself .... then every word will also enter into the human beings’ hearts, and the small flock of people on earth which follows the Saviour and is willing to serve Him, will unite ever more closely. But anyone leaving the mother church surrenders himself to divine grace if he does not voluntarily bring himself in his heart to accept the divine doctrine .... Such struggle of heart is of immense value at the present time if you do not want to perish. The soil is being prepared wherever a community congregates to hear God’s Word, and if a person’s love is active as well the earthly child will soon feel the blessing of God’s Word by being able to penetrate the divine teaching ever more and by receiving the right understanding for God’s Word.

And thus the foundation of faith is laid in such a community, and if a faithful, God-serving shepherd is in charge of this community the Lord’s Words will soon take root in the hearts of the believers, and they will be correctly guided onto the path of ascent. Therefore remain faithful to your mother church and don’t leave it, for every church can give you the foundation for your own progress of ascent if you don’t just listen with your ears but also with your hearts to what your Heavenly Father is telling you through His servants. Therefore, when you hear God’s Word you should know that the Lord Himself is speaking to you .... you should know that everyone who serves the Lord has been chosen to proclaim the Word, that one day there shall be a great harvest .... and respect all workers in the vineyard of the Lord .... Any person proclaiming His Word has been given the task and strength by Him .... thus listen to him and the blessing of God’s Word will always come over you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Decision .... Love on earth or sacrifice ....

B.D. 0401 from May 6th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

The ones who are Mine should be comforted at any time .... Thus I made you known and lead you safely through all trials of life. Those who respect My word go into My protection, and never does the Father allow that suffering be inflicted to their soul. And that's why I only remain in love towards Me, everything follows by itself, because ultimately, only one power dominates the universe .... My will .... and where I love, I want that everyone who longs for Me, will be protected. What other value would life have except that I am well pleased with My children? .... Everything exists and arises nevertheless only for these, and if the actual purpose of life was recognized only once in so far that the soul turns lovingly to Me, then I will not permit that this soul ever again goes astray ....

The will of the child towards the Father is decisive .... then all strength flows through you to remain faithful to this will .... Also I do not admit then any longer that this soul turned to Me, is seized by dark forces .... What is still allotted to it on cloudy days, serves only for the stronger development of love and to awaken ardent longing for the Divine Father, and [you should], in this knowledge, always patiently accept what is henceforth destined for you. You are still unconscious of love, otherwise you would be able to satisfy the desires of the heart .... Every work of the soul takes time .... It is up to you to rise in the most burning love, to sacrifice your life on earth or to sacrifice your earthly life to the Lord and to enjoy unspeakable happiness in the hereafter ....

In any case, your love will not be stopped, but you would become incompetent for earthly life with the all-consuming love in your heart .... This is the task that is left to you to accomplish .... I look upon you, My child, with infinite love and yet I must leave this decision to you .... What earthly happiness can be granted to the human child, is always an obstacle on the way to Me .... I Myself am the Love and the Life; whoever remains in Me and I in him, has eternal life .... the love for Me must dominate you if you want to enter My kingdom, and you must give away everything else willingly ....

The world is hard in it's privations and hardships .... To attain eternal life without resistance would not be meritorious, and many even stumble in this resistance. You, My child, My angels shall guard you and always direct your spirit towards Me .... But they must not influence your will, and therefore it is entirely up to you alone to obtain the heavenly crown .... Whoever lives in My love will also fulfill My will, so you should first seek to strengthen yourself in this love ....

A pure heart in fullest faith and a patient, always gentle nature, secure you My love, and this again inevitably pulls you upwards. Thus your walk on earth is blessed, if everything is based on love for Me .... To see the glory of God is the highest and for you the most incomprehensible happiness that awaits you in the hereafter. To share in this happiness, you must use every minute of your life and always obey My commandment of love, because true love alone paves the way to eternal bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Dangers of the world .... False luster ....

B.D. 0402 from May 6th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

You must strengthen yourselves with the power that flows to you from the Word of God, and so the Lord tells you that no-one makes an effort to lead a life pleasing to God who continues to turn his thoughts to the worldly, because the soul can never find it's Creator where far more interest is devoted to the temporal life. In such spiritual poverty the spark of the knowledge of God is certainly not hidden. Man seeks to win from the earth everything conceivably possible, but no thought, however quietly longing, turns to the eternal Creator .... Anyone knowing the dangers of the current earth certainly foresee no good end ....

And so one day after the other passes by and brings no ascent to the human soul .... a long life passed by without any consideration towards the Divine - and is poor in Divine grace and edification, because where the heart does not ask for it, there it must be in need and thus loses infinite help and support. But the world with it's false luster blinds such a poor heart, and the more such a man longs for it, the more abundantly it will be fulfilled, because the world pays it's tribute to him who only longs for it.

So most do not recognize their purpose in life because the veil of ignorance is permanently before their spiritual eyes, and what now such a soul creates or does not create for eternity, is unspeakably sad. Thoughts of God indeed forces itself upon them at times, but then it is always only a mechanical merging in religion they are taught .... Their inside, however, knows little of it, and they do not try to establish a deep internal connection with the heavenly Father at all, because any spiritual compulsion is unpleasant for them, and they are still so far removed from a full recognition ....

Thus such a soul anxiously avoids the opportunity that could give it enlightenment, and prefers to cling desperately to the dead teaching rather than to give life to this teaching with a warm heart and bring itself into a state in which the spirit dominates the body and the whole fullness of Divine grace would make the way upwards so easy for them. Remember these poor souls fervently in prayer, so that the light of knowledge may be kindled for them still on earth and they may not have to struggle unspeakably in the world beyond ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Divine Power .... Energy .... Correct desire ....

B.D. 0403 from May 7th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Follow our explanations: The earth with it's surrounding atmosphere enlivens innumerable beings for the sole purpose that these can take care of their development and concentrate more and more on absorbing a force within themselves, which one can then regard as a culmination point and from which one can continuously strive for and achieve a transformability. Work this out for yourself: ....

It is given to man to acquire an extraordinary power; he only needs to want to and can then use it to put his will into action. If he will now unite .... he can decide inwardly consciously, to which goal this wanting is to be applied now, then he receives at the same time the ability to prepare himself for eternity, because he then brings his will in agreement with the task assigned to him and he then can no longer do anything else but to fulfill this task.

For this earth-life all people has been given the same task: the ennobling of their soul, to give it freedom out of it's previous power and then to prepare it to receive the Divine Spirit. The sooner this transformation takes place, the more effectively the power of the all-generating Divinity will influence this person .... So it is given to everyone to become a part of this power through a focused will. The evil influence of the earth will be weakened in the same measure .... The soul so to speak removes itself from the sphere of the world which holds it in chains .... it unites itself in higher spheres with beneficial and supporting spirit-beings and thus escapes the power of darkness ....

The right will has therefore brought about a transformation that fits completely into the order of God .... Every activity carried out at this stage is now aimed at the advancement of the soul, and the possibility therefore remains that the soul's further course of development takes place in such a way that it fully complies with it's destiny and fulfills it's task on earth .... it has taken on a covering which is able to contain the highest and holiest .... the Spirit of God ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

'Oh come all to Me ....'

B.D. 0404 from May 7th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Cast all your cares on the Lord .... and if the worries concern your spiritual well-being, you shall not remain in need for long. One thing above all is needed for you, that you do not consider worries too small or too great to entrust them to the Lord .... If you are always careful to trust in the heavenly Father, His love also always care for you .... because you would have to despair without His help, the Lord takes it from you immediately on your prayer .... because through this prayer you also increase your strength to bear what is imposed on you, and therefore it will be useful for you to turn to Divine love and mercy in every tribulation.

"Oh come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened .... I will refresh you ...." All consolation and all love lie in these words of the Savior, and not for a second should you tarry where the Lord's help is so dearly offered to you. The greatest concern of the Lord is that you would not need Him on your way of life, that you believe .... relying on your strength, to be able to do without His help .... then your spiritual progress will be very slowly because man is only able to do very little from within himself, but with the help of the Divine Father, infinitely much. So turn to Him in every trouble of soul and body; He will not let your prayer go unheard, and you will only win for now and all time.

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Disadvantage of cultural development .... Worldly wisdom .... Forces of nature .... Charities ....

B.D. 0405 from May 8th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Out of such connection grows the greatest blessing for you, and therefore always begin your daily work with intimate prayer. The Savior of all the worlds is now again passing through the earth valley. His mission is to teach the world the true faith. But little has changed during this time. It is an extremely difficult beginning to put the belief in an afterlife into the hearts of people who deny everything supernatural in a truly sacrilegious way .... Today's cultural development has the large disadvantage that it produces innumerable worldly wisdoms and fights therefore from this perspective particularly against everything indicating a life outside of the earth.

And so the progress on earth is always a disadvantage for everything spiritual. The active striving and haste, which fills people day in and day out, leaves them little or no time for the development of the spirit .... for the work on their soul. They do not notice how fast their time is passing by, they follow their earthly activity unaffected that only now and then a thought turns to infinity .... And this is the most unhealthy foundation on which spiritual building can proceed. It is not only the excessively time-consuming earthly activity that hinders man, but rather the spiritual knowledge that such people believe to have and against which it is far more difficult to fight.

To open up a field of knowledge to a not so wise person is considerably easier .... but to want to convey spiritual knowledge to a person who is well versed in all knowledge, is far more hopeless .... The whole existence of this man depends in his opinion only on his earthly activity .... A thought of something higher, of an existence formed in any other form after his bodily death, is to him something that only requires a quiet smile of superior knowledge, and yet such a wise man on earth knows nothing .... His spiritual, soul-supporting activity shows gaps upon gaps ....

That is why the Lord has now taken care and has chosen His servants with the ability to confront them with extraordinary proofs of His power and will. It will be a desperate struggle for these souls, who often do not want to take the trouble to seriously examine an apparent proof of the Divine work .... But forces of nature will also bring them enlightenment at the same time, so that they try to turn their thought-activity away from the earthly and to penetrate into infinity ....

But what a struggle of the spirit-beings and the servants on earth has to engage in for these self-exalting earthly children .... The universe with all it's splendor, all phenomena around and above, are not enough to awaken even one small glimmer of light in these .... and the charitable institutions striven for in the world also deprive them of the last chance to cultivate a love-field for themselves, where the Divine Source of grace would be opened up to them through an activity in love and where they could then give food to the spirit within themselves out of love ....

That is why an ever wider gap lies between the children on earth and the spirit-beings active around them because love is so little practiced and without love, the spirit remains in darkness and a development of the soul can only be achieved with difficulty. Because the assumption that an earthly child attains a perfect spiritual state through an apparently civilized life on earth, is wrong .... The soul must be redeemed from within, and this only love can bring about, and only where this is active, the still existing darkness of the spirit is to be banished, and also the light of recognition will still shine for these people, when they only make an effort to cultivate love .... Then also the grace of the Lord will meet them lovingly and let them safely find the way leading upwards into the heavenly kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Father's words

B.D. 0406 from May 8th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Hear the voice speaking to you .... All the time, people are born who have the inner urge to submit to the Divinity in everything they do .... life is also only one step on the ladder leading to perfection. Therefore do not fear and tremble, you who want to reach the highest bliss of eternal life .... Your heart will guide you, you will hear the Divine voice calling out to you: "Follow Me .... and the suffering of the earth is overcome for those who remember only the Lord.

A moment full of joy is granted you, which exceeds the suffering of the earth a thousand times. If you abstained from the world, you now learn to know happiness in all it's fullness, because the love of God knows no bounds, and you can still increase this heavenly happiness to immeasurable heights, if you have become one with Him in the love for the Lord and Savior .... Therefore is the wrestling during time on earth necessary until the last hour .... Hear therefore the exhortation which the Lord sends to those who are His: You will be considered by My love, but make yourselves also worthy of this love.

Those who keep My commandments and follow Me, remain eternally in My love .... They will not feel the heaviness of the earth oppressive, when they are completely absorbed in My will .... The last will be first, and so also everyone who willingly serves Me, will rule over innumerable beings in the universe .... Because My power passes over into those children who are devoted to Me in love. See the earth as a unique schoolhouse that I Myself run .... and where I try to teach My wisdoms to all pupils and to give them knowledge of the work of the Godhead .... And see these children, how they receive differently what is offered to them .... how they partly hang attentively on My lips, but partly also listen completely unwillingly and want to escape My teachings.

And so only a small part will use what My love offers them .... But this small fraction of My earthly children is so willing that My fullest love is there for them and the stream of My love-glowing heart overflows into their hearts .... and so for these there will sure still come times of trial, but they will know how to rise again and again in My favor, surrender and follow Me loyally .... And so I never leave a heart so anxious for inner maturity .... I bless it and make it fully available to Me .... until I one day take it into My Father's kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Security of the truth .... Importance of knowledge .... Guiding spirit ....

B.D. 0407 from May 9th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

This may be said for your reassurance that neither spirit-beings nor people have the gift of conveying to you erroneous views, if you seek the truth in your heart alone. You yourself refuse to accept an untruth in your mind .... so no power will be able to transmit such to you. That's why your struggle for the truth is so blessed, because with this will, you are already eliminating a misleading force .... Then danger will only threaten you, if your wrestling slackens and you surrender yourself in indifference to the effects of all the elements ....

And that is why your prayer is needed, which gives you protection at all times and makes you receptive to all that is good and noble .... The goodness of the Lord lets you be steadfastly instructed; your attention is to be directed mainly to attain spiritual maturity, because for your farther life, a knowledge is necessary that makes you capable of every contradiction when the teaching of the Lord is challenged. Whether in this or that world .... diligent work will always be required if the words of God are to find their way in and be vividly evaluated.

It is not about absorbing the details, but rather about the knowledge of a continuous life .... about incessant work on the soul .... about the everlasting activity of each being .... This knowledge will spur you on to the highest possible perfection in your earthly existence, because it offers the greatest possibility for it and your continued life then exists for you only in your own blissful love-activity, while otherwise still another agonizing struggle to the finite height in the hereafter is destined for you, which you are given ample opportunity to avoid in this life ....

So now your protecting and guiding spirit tells you about a constant worry of the beings surrounding you .... Their activity consists mostly of conveying to you the true realization that you have been made receptive to our teachings. They care for you as it were continuously and watch over your thoughts. It is of incomparable value to be entrusted to such faithful guardians .... The right knowledge which they own, will also soon pass over to you and will detach you more and more from the earth's resistance. Thus cared for, your life path will still be a struggle, but a successful one ....

Only few are assigned such a task because the power and the will of every individual are so different, that the Lord chooses them Himself. Whoever grants Him entrance into his heart, will also place himself in his protection and now experiences the proofs of His love and goodness in the richest measure. But beyond that, a driving force is given into man's heart, according to which he must strive ever higher, and this driving force awakens wherever man engages in love towards his fellow men. Spiritual knowledge is hence indispensable to show the fellow men the right way to attain eternal life ....

Amen

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Activity of the friend .... Effect on souls in the beyond .... Eager listener ....

B.D. 0408 from May 9th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Blessed activity is completely united with our will, and we are always waiting for the hour that will allow us to connect with you. It would be so easy to convey to the spirit what our task is, but your body-shell is still a strong obstacle, and it is only your constant striving that makes it easier for us to communicate with you, because where the will is strong, our power is also strengthened .... But the pure words of God can only be communicated to you through a Divine Spirit ....

We are present at every recording and take part in all teachings, but it would be impossible for us to announce ourselves to you, since this your connection with the hereafter is a serious teaching activity and we are not allowed to claim your strength and time for ourselves. But we remain constantly connected to you .... we bring you all compassion and only faithfully keep everything far away from you, which could be hindering you and your striving. Well, countless figures from other regions are moving around you and are trying to make you turn away from your task .... But the protective wall around you is so strong that you need fear nothing.

But it is now a rare privilege for us that we may communicate with you. Your friend urges you not to let yourself be distracted from this extremely blessed activity under any circumstances .... she wants to devote herself, like you, to the work in the hereafter with a zeal that she may one day receive you in the same condition .... Thus it has become her task to contribute to the ennoblement of the beings by pointing to this your activity. Countless beings already place their salvation on your heart, they unite around you daily and hourly and are happy to be allowed to stay in this sphere and to receive admonitions and teachings without interruption, partly through your spiritual striving .... but also through the activity that made it much easier for them to find knowledge ....

Some still err ignorantly in your proximity, and these especially are in the caring love of your girlfriend. It is infinitely delightful for the ignorant to point out to such helping souls can also be appointed to them, if they do not reject this help, .... What was missed on earth in the effort of love, is gladly and joyfully carried out there, and this effort is often not so easy .... because there are - just as on earth - very many stubborn and obstinate souls in the universe, who are averse to any instruction and ungraciously reject it. There also many a knowing soul must exercise itself in patience and again and again try to influence such erring ones with love.

There is an extremely faithful listener in your circle .... all your writings are accessible to him, and he already has the knowledge that he feels happy to have been so blessed. It is the Lord's will that all those who are yours and all who are near you may participate in the teachings that are given to you. For such is commanded by the Lord that everyone should be granted what he desires .... And whoever feels drawn into this circle, he will certainly not go away empty-handed and they will be commanded so much spiritual food and drink that they can strengthen and mature with it.

Through your work they have been offered such an active spiritual activity that they thank you eternally .... because your will to reach God also shows the right way to so endlessly many. In this hour we all experience the grace of the Lord on us and thus follow your work with true joy .... The Lord's goodness lasts forever, and His love is boundless .... He considers all His children and seeks to win also those who still reject Him. Thanks to Him until all eternity.

Amen

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Regarding earthquakes and disasters ....

B.D. 0409 from May 10th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

A little while yet, and the Lord provides His own with great power and gives them authority to work in His name. Likewise, those whose hearts meet Him in love, will be overtaken by an undreamed-of measure of wisdom .... There will be thousands to be converted, and to give these a glimmer of the light of God, God must let extraordinary signs happen, because the blindness among mankind is too great.

And in a night of terror many will fall into the belief that the forces of nature have put an end to their existence. So there is still the possibility to bring about a recognition in such souls, because only that what happens outside the earth .... in which men are uninvolved, can bring about a change leading to good. The rule of the elements will make them realize that every being is subject to a higher power .... Hours of extreme trouble and distress have to precede this spiritual knowledge, and so also this is only a work of mercy of the Divine Savior.

As the forces of nature also have a purifying effect in the air through their activity, so also a great shaking of the earth will only have a positive effect on mankind in a favourable sense, because all earthly decay can be made good, but not the decay of the soul .... Whatever earthly valuables are destroyed, thousands and thousands of hands will strive to rebuild .... a building of the soul however will not be tackled so fast .... Only a small part of humanity will think of something better, and this will be greatly blessed by the natural activity and it's devastation ....

Thus the brazen voice of the Lord will sound everywhere, and wise is he who hears it and works to fulfil the will of the Lord .... The earthly valley that is so lovely for you can become a valley of terror, if you do not respect the grace to be allowed to dwell in it and only strive to fulfill your sensual desires. Where can be a life without actual activity .... which is determined for you and which consists in the eager further training of your soul .... ? God's forbearance and patience lasts forever .... but you would not reach your goal in eternities, if you never had the will to do so.

And so God gives you His will urgently .... He who has ears to hear, let him hear .... because the Lord warns everyone, so that eternal darkness may not cover him, but that he may enjoy the Divine light. You who want to serve Me, be ready for this time, because then you will have to exercise your office and announce everywhere the word of God, which will be comfort and edification for innumerable people in difficult times, but then will also be respected and obeyed ....

Amen

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New formation of beings .... Army of creating spirits .... Problems ....

B.D. 0410 from May 11th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

The biggest problem for you to solve is .... how you can unite with the all-encompassing and love-giving Godhead, so that as a part of this eternal Godhead, you can also once possess unlimited, perfect power and join the army of creating spirits. Thus the wise plan of God is always directed towards the new formation of beings who always and constantly execute the will of the Lord out of their own free will in order to help countless less developed beings than these ruling powers to progress in infinity in a just and wise way, to let the beneficial environment arise for them again and thus to work united with the Godhead and yet unchanged by the Divine will ....

Integration into the Divine order already means a union with the eternal Godhead, because everything then happens according to the will of God and again for the purpose of the higher development of all beings originating from God .... That is why every atom in the universe .... was created by the hand of God .... and is never ever worthless .... The measures that are applied to bring about a complete dissolution of atoms are more or less executions of his servant spirit-beings, likewise brought about by the will of God, in order to penetrate even the smallest judgement of creation and to lead it to it's intended purpose.

Everything that people do to dissolve matter to a certain extent, or to form it differently, is an intervention of the Divine will, which frees the beings bound in this matter, and offers them again in another form the possibility to go through the course of development determined for them. It is of extraordinary importance to extract from nature, which is constantly changing, the rules of life that are useful and beneficial to every being. Considering this, man will always have to recognize a wise Divine plan in every change of form .... be it on the ground or in the air ....

Everywhere a slow but constant change is going on, which, however, always has the sole purpose to give the beings a redesign that develops them further. Nothing can stick to and on the earth in the long run .... The condition of a form is of a different duration, depending on the abundance of the life-spirits encapsulated in the form .... An employment of the Divine will changes the old form only when these life-spirits are able to fulfill their task in another arrangement of their accordint to their purpose .... and this always until they have reached the degree of maturity for the next stage.

Such change .... an emergence and passing, is to be constantly observed in nature, and exactly the same is also the condition of humans - the same law of God is imposed over the soul, according to which the soul can likewise leave this covering only then when it has reached a certain degree of maturity .... Life on earth has however only value if the reaching of this degree of maturity is consciously aimed at .... in contrast to all stages, which the soul had to exist in involuntarily before it's embodiment as human ....

And so it must therefore be of the greatest value to consciously enter into contact with the Divine Creator, so that the millennia of struggle before would not been in vain and man now lives up to his last task in full knowledge of it and of out of his own free will .... That he turn this his will to the Godhead and subordinate it completely to the Divine will .... this alone is of blessing to the spirit, that his striving to unite with the Divine Father-Spirit, may be fulfilled. For God's wisdom and love has a task ready for everyone, which awaits him in eternity ....

Amen

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Activity in the afterlife .... Participation in the teachings .... It's value ....

B.D. 0411 from May 11th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

It will not remain hidden to you that also in the hereafter a still so small will-power is able to develop favourably in the spiritual. It is a regulated activity for the service of still ignorant beings, a permanent school of the spirit .... There too, as on earth, like-minded souls unite and exercise their activity mostly in a community, because a mutual stimulation for these souls is a need and again also stimulates the souls to utmost activity.

The free will is also here alone decisive, then nobody can find himself in a predicament .... everything that is done in the hereafter is the completely free will of the individual .... each soul holds an office, a place, where it fulfills it's obligations and is always anxious to carry out "more" than is demanded of it. Provided that this soul has already received the grace of enlightenment .... that it has recognized which work awaits it in the hereafter .... and that it can only reach a higher state through such activity in love for the other. Nothing is then too heavy or too laborious for such a soul .... Without rest, it remains busy and active for the great work in eternity, to save the lost or ignorant souls from need and distress.

If now such a connection is established as this your present ...., then the spirit-being concerned about lower creatures, brings an extraordinary ability to undertake this work of redemption .... Such beings, who enjoy this teaching together with you, can indeed constantly look after an immense number of souls in need of help and lovingly impart to them the teachings and wisdom they have enjoyed, and the strength will never diminish, because they may constantly draw from this source of grace, which opens up to you on earth as well as to the beings in the hereafter, an area that is inexhaustible - because the wisdom of God cannot find an end, as everything that is of God cannot be completed forever ....

The highest gift to a human on earth is the personal instruction by the highest messengers of God and the love of the Lord Himself .... To whom this is granted, he cannot praise himself sufficiently happy because his earthly power is not by far sufficient to receive such teachings and wisdom, unless the power of God expresses itself so visibly and wants to consider the willing child with the gift to receive and write down the thoughts of the spirit-beings.

It is a work from the heavens .... it is an obvious sign of the Lord's exceedingly great love for His children on earth .... it is still much more a making oneself feel the loving heart turned to Him, so that it may hear the voice of the Lord and now be graciously blessed. The school of life is built on Divine wisdom .... he to whom this school now brings or has brought the desired success, will henceforth be fed directly from heaven with further teachings, and his teacher will be the Savior Himself, who again blesses the earth through such love and wants to save it from destruction when they only accept what is lovingly offered to them from above.

Amen

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Cycle of Things .... Rhythm .... Three times sun-effect ....

B.D. 0412 from May 12th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

One of the peculiarities of the day is also the eventful and extensive .... and extremely regulated effects of the natural forces on both humans and the animal world .... It is a cycle of all things predetermined by the Divine will as a basis .... according to which now each being is always subjected to the same events and everything regulates itself .... which would be of great consolation to humans, if they had directed their attention to it only a little .... Just as everything in the universe is subject to a certain rhythm, so too all events in life are animated by the same rhythm, so that an unmistakable rule of the eternal Godhead can already be seen from it.

Although you follow all your actions of your own free will, a certain regularity can always be recognized .... and always repeats the same thing at certain intervals, quite obviously and sometimes also hidden, but clearly visible to the person thinking about it. Whether on a small or large scale .... Everything is based on the Divine order, therefore it is natural that the eternal Godhead knows about the smallest world events and that every event is necessary for the development of the whole ....

If man would regard the whole natural life in this sense, then he could not at all avoid to take note of the all-directing and wise ruling Deity .... because no earthly ruler, however wise, can influence a natural event .... This is the sole responsibility of the Ruler of the universe, who from eternal times has given His laws to nature and all that arises in it .... The sun's effect is different three times a day .... in the morning, at noon and in the evening .... It's power acts on the living beings in a different way each time ....

In the morning, it practically awakens everything that sleeps .... it raises leaves and flowers, grasses and stalks and provides them with the strength to go through the daily stage of development .... to grow and flourish .... At midday the power of the sun is so increased that it has an invigorating effect on all creatures, as long as they are still growing. It then drives everything to the highest activity and thus in turn promotes the development of all living beings on earth .... But by evening, it's light is already extremely mild .... charitably touching everything and of mild luminous and warm power. And yet even this slow decline of their activity is wisely arranged to prevent the transition from the heat of the day to the coolness of the night from being felt so suddenly by all that lives on earth.

Likewise man must move in his so ordered cycle of all things, directed according to God's wisdom and will, and these regular repetitions of all events are the pointers to the rule of the eternal Godhead and an indication that man is therefore an inserted link in the chain that is passed through all eternities, forged by the Divine Master Himself.

Amen

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Father's comforting words .... Admonition to firm faith ....

B.D. 0413 from May 12th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

The breath of God blows around you, My child, when you turn to Me in intimate prayer. Try to always abandon yourself to heavenly grace, and soon the trembling in your heart will be banished, because you must know that whoever trusts Me, acquires an inexhaustible measure of love .... In no distress of body and soul I leave you alone .... because a heart that trusts Me is strong in it's faith. But the eternally highest, is faith .... If you can call a deep, unshakeable faith your own, then you yourself are standing much higher than the highest born man on earth. For those who believe in Me are My children, and those who are children of God are no longer of this world ....

Receive and understand .... I want you to acquire this deep faith, I also want you to present all your worries to Me with confidence .... and I want to take these your worries from you as a father keeps all evil away from his children. The more you trust, the further away all misfortune will be from you .... Your soul is still timid and yet stands in an excess of grace ....

Therefore, your effort to refrain from any timidity should always be to trust only your Saviour and put yourself in a state where you, deeply believing and with a joyful heart, surrender yourself to the Heavenly Father, for His care is your welfare .... and if the soul is well taken care of, then the needs of the body, which still press you, will not be felt and also of so little importance .... which you will only recognize when you have emerged from the body shell yourselves.

The Lord warns everybody against a too shallow faith .... you will feel the power of a deep faith even soon in yourselves .... you will be relieved of every pressure and every earthly heaviness when you only believe because the confidence that the Father in heaven does not leave you without help, will also make all heaviness much easier for you to bear, and so you come closer and closer to the eternal home. Because a true faith is the basis for correct action, and through this you will surely find the way to the heavenly Father ....

Amen

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Love .... God's Word .... Field .... Seed .... God's protection ....

B.D. 0414 from May 13th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Love one another .... This is the highest commandment, for it embraces all that the Lord God asks of you .... If you fulfill this commandment, you will also never be without the love for God .... and you desire more and more the power and grace that flows to you through the love for God and for your neighbor. Therefore, wherever you are chosen to fulfill a mission to your neighbor, this alone is already an inexpressible grace from the Lord, because a field of love has been given to you, which you shall never tire of cultivating.

To receive the seed through the Word of God, which is transmitted to you daily, is again a proof of the grace of Divine Love, and if you are busy and active in spreading this Word, and if you sincerely ask God for His blessing, the seed will sprout in the hearts of people and will then also lead them on the way of salvation .... All salvation comes from the Word of God .... so the doors to the heart are wide open and let in all the blessings that the Lord Himself has placed in His Word. Full understanding will only come to you when you make an effort to put the Word of God into practice; there is nothing as powerful as the active exercise of the Word of God ....

"I am the word, the truth and the life", says the Lord .... so everyone has received the Lord Himself by accepting the word of God .... he walks in the truth and will live for eternity .... And as only true love always unites with the word, so it certainly follows by itself that you are then in full possession of all spiritual vitality .... that you then need not fear anything - and no event, however threatening, can affect you, because the Lord rules with his love in you and around you, and he watches over and protects those who are His .... those who carry His Word in their hearts and live in love .... for these are His true children whom the Father will protect from all evils of body and soul ....

The active spiritual activity .... the search for Divine truths .... the walk of the spirit in regions outside the earth .... all this is already a proof of the everlasting company of the Lord .... His love is steadfast with these children who abide in His Word and in love, and makes them safely walk the right path that leads to the heavenly Father and through Him to eternal life ....

Amen

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Work of the demons .... Love as a weapon .... Poem ....

B.D. 0415 from May 13th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

The demons are poisoning the land ..... They are constantly trying to gain power over the incarnated souls walking on earth. They feel the need to transfer all the evil urges and vices they themselves indulge into the people on earth, and with all means and attempts they penetrate them .... A great power belongs to .... Self-conquest and recognition of your spiritual task to resist these demons. But every event has it's good side .... the beings who are aware of their task, join themselves all the more intimately to their Lord and Savior ....

Earthly children living in spiritual inertia often awaken and become active and busily working on themselves as children of God, and by using all their strength they will also be able to overcome such temptations when they always turn their heart in love towards the heavenly Father. The call of the Lord goes out to all: Be alert and pray so that you do not fall into temptation, never forget to strengthen yourselves for the fight that earthly existence means for you .... live in faith and love .... then you are already conquerors and winners in this fight because you overcome yourselves and defeat the opponent who wants to destroy you.

A little word of love, given to your neighbor, is always a weapon with which you protect yourself against all attacks of the enemy .... And if love moves you, you will never be defenseless .... this weapon breaks the strength of evil .... all evil influences are debilitated .... and you yourselves are growing an ever stronger and stronger force with which you can silence the whispers of such demons.

(In every danger, in every need, there is only one commandment for you .... let love dwell in your heart .... demons leave you, through love you fight your way up .... life on earth becomes easy for you; where ever only love is given .... there the heart is so richly considered .... Request this heavenly power. You shall be protected always .... you are always ready to love ....)

Amen

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State of readiness .... Submission of will ....

B.D. 0416 from May 14th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

He who rules everything in the universe will know how to control even the smallest creatures. But He leads, as it were, at His hand the children of God who completely surrender themselves to His will .... One's own wrongdoing is then never to be feared because the power of the heavenly Father is stronger than the weak will of the child, and, inspired by this power, the child also willingly lets himself be led and thus always comes closer to the goal. As soon as faith weakens the danger to stray is greater, but where subordination to God's will has occurred, there is also the basis for a firm faith, and only a complete separation out of free will would result in a reduction of the strength of faith.

This would only be possible, however, if we consciously work against God's commandments .... And such is an extremely rare case, so once an earthly child in possession of Divine grace is also permeated by the love for God .... That is why you, My child, need have no worries; the Lord protects you and always gives you warnings and also proofs of His Fatherly grace, which is to draw you constantly higher. In view of the willingness with which you always fulfil your spiritual task, the Lord particularly urges you to put yourself in a state that puts an end to your fears and doubts .... in a state of complete readiness to receive everything that is intended for you ....

You must always think that the Lord has taken you into His loving care and now you can do nothing else but to do His will .... But you must also always accept every phenomenon in life, every suffering and discomfort, all joy, all happiness, also as a gift of the Saviour, who thereby only constantly shapes you, in order to transform you into that which makes you worthy of His love .... which in you should still eliminate everything that connects you with the earth, in order to transform you only into a child of heaven .... If you can reach that state, then soon all suffering will no longer be palpable to you .... You are then connected in love with your Creator and no longer feel the pressure and heaviness of the earth.

This complete leaning on the Divine will then also completely excludes a falling away because the will to reach the Father will always be a protective wall against possible temptations that penetrate from outside. your serious efforts must be directed to .... making yourself completely free of fear .... thus to overcome the lack of trust in God to the highest degree .... This will make your life path extraordinarily easier and make you more and more capable for this task on earth. For God's blessing is upon you all the time.

Amen

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Grain - harvest - reaper .... Secular pleasures ....

B.D. 0417 from May 14th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Accept the gifts as they are offered to you, and make an effort to take an intimate part in them, and you will always be blessed. For the grain is not always ripe for harvest .... it must come in due time. But if the time has not yet come, then it shall be left to the Lord how He brings the fruit to

maturity. Likewise, your spirit is to receive what it is commanded by the heavenly Father .... Until the time of maturity has come, you must surrender yourself completely to the Lord, so that He may let the spiritual fruit in you come to maturity. Likewise, your spirit is to receive what it is commanded by the heavenly Father .... Until the time of maturity has come, you must surrender yourself completely to the Lord, so that He may let the spiritual fruit in you come to maturity.

Then only when the time of harvest has come, when the reaper needs many, then it will become clear how manifold the seed has risen, which the Lord Himself has sown. Pay attention to the coming time, everything that turns to the earth with it's joys cannot develop to spiritual maturity .... The fruits now being brought forth are perishable, worthless results of their earthly change .... they will be thrown aside as weeds at the great harvest, and the right fruits will be very few.

And in this time it will become obvious .... Man with his habits cannot so easily give up what has kept him imprisoned for years and has been of attraction to him until now. He tramples on the good seed that was sown, because he does not recognize it's value .... and so he already gave up everything to be able to count on a good harvest, because he gave up the foundation ....

(Break)

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The lovely earthly valley .... Clockwork ....

B.D. 0418 from May 15th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Acquire the right to God's grace, and it will be granted to you immeasurably. Hear the words of the Lord: The valley of life is for you people a rich and beautiful fragment of the eternal creation of God .... Where the children of the earth strive to find the key to all that is beautiful, the earth will open up to them .... it will reveal itself to the smallest detail and will thereby proclaim the glory of the Most High, His power and His glory.

Given this, the earth will be like a clock, finely constructed by God, whose movement is driven inexorably as if by a finely geared train. In the same way also the earth is kept in motion by eternally interlocking cogs, which are the eternally unchanging Divine order .... and every creature has it's share in participating in it's kind in the Lord's work of creation. Countless seed dust holds the fullness of light .... each grain of sand holds an atom of the universe .... but the wise of the world see nothing of it all .... they grasp only purely earthly, which they should recognize as a miracle of Divine creation. They have wisely calculated and fathomed all emergence in nature ....

Everything that testifies to the miraculous power of the Divine Spirit is, according to their understanding, a lawful force of nature, an emergence out of itself, based on the living conditions of the individual living beings. Just there where the working of the Divinity begins, there they stop .... they certainly deduce the presence of a divinity, but only in the forces of nature expressing themselves .... but not as an entity, which intervenes in all life and experience down to the smallest detail and which has set a certain task for the beings inhabiting the earth ....

Everything that the earth offers to your eyes can only be grasped in it's deepest wisdom and wonderful glory if one deeply believe in an eternal God .... without this you lack the key that will give you access to this wonderland .... and what your eyes see is only the shell that still hides the secret work of the Lord .... try to look with spiritual eyes and you will break through the shell .... you will look into a land that will reveal far more wonders to you .... you will soon be able to recognize the earth as that which the Divine Creator creates in the excess of His love .... as a clockwork of the finest construction .... which in it's regularity is such a meaningful institution for millions of people who betrays the direct contact of the Divine Master with His creatures .... and therefore thanks - praise - and honour are due to this Lord and Master until all eternity ....

Amen

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Reference to teaching activities .... The wise - the ignorant ....

B.D. 0419 from May 15th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

He who is faithful to the Lord fulfills his duty .... If the task was given to you to be a righteous fighter of Christ, then every word you speak for His glory is the right one .... and you will find in this task the fulfillment of life on earth. Thus a word for Christ is always better than an act without the blessing of the Lord, for this will be judged by the spirit that governs it .... but you will never be told what to do for the glory of God, but your heart must guide you and will always find the right form to advocate for the Lord. So pay attention therefore only to the fact that love of the Lord guides you, then also your will will always accomplish what your heart longs for.

It is a tradition that wisdom cannot be made even wiser .... therefore the Word of God will only be accepted where man seeks .... but not where he already believes to have the knowledge .... there only a shrug of the shoulders will follow your speeches, but where the earthly child has been occupied with similar questions, the process will begin, which is the only way desired by the Lord and also by the spiritual beings .... that a lively thinking activity starts about problems, which are otherwise easily rejected.

And so the wise do not find the key to the truth so easily, the ignorant however gladly receive a reference to the Divine Creator .... and much is already won, if an earth child devotes itself to this thought .... How this thought-activity happens, is not hidden from you .... it often is only the slightest hint of survival after death that makes people think .... And if the sense of eternity is opened to a true seeker of God, then knowledge is not difficult for him to attain .... The grace to dwell in the Lord is commanded to everyone in the richest measure, but innumerable people do not respect this grace ....

The world creates it's teachings as it needs them and as they are beneficial to earthly desire .... But these will certainly be hardly compatible with the Divine teachings .... they judge where they lack any knowledge and also any understanding .... they often make the views of others their own without possessing the right power of judgment themselves. And then they want to have an educational effect on others .... To prevent this is praiseworthy and pleasing to the Lord, and where the love for the Divine Lord and Saviour underlies this endeavour, words will not fall on barren ground, but will quietly begin to sprout and be supported by personal events, thought through again and again and finally heeded .... so that your efforts will be rewarded ....

Amen

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Present and past .... Redemption ....

B.D. 0420 from May 16th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

The past solves itself .... the present is always the ever-determining. Making these words understandable to man, is often met with hard resistance .... and yet this problem is one of the most important laws of creation, according to which the Lord never judges and punishes with eternal damnation whoever once has detached himself from the past sinful life and has now accepted true knowledge in the present. This is all the more difficult to accept because man is responsible for his deeds at all times .... so therefore for all the past .... but in God's wisdom and love it is reserved to every creature to be released from the deserved punishment when his innermost being can still be guided on the right path and be transformed ....

Then what he lacked before will never again be repaid, but will lovingly be forgiven him by the Lord and Savior. Therefore the Lord took upon Himself the suffering and sin of mankind; He suffered death on the cross to deliver them from this guilt of sin. Because it would rise into the immeasurable for humans, if they would want to erase all sin debt themselves one day .... Hence the Lord is so unspeakably interested in an inner conversion, because he wants to reduce the unspeakable pain in the hereafter for the children of the earth ....

And the struggle for such souls, which walk on earth in darkness of spirit for a long time, is tremendous .... therefore it is necessary to present to them the great mercy of the Lord .... That they are allowed to free themselves from their guilt when a finite recognition of the eternally Divine causes them to purify themselves inwardly .... when they in this knowledge repent of their past life and through this make themselves worthy of all grace that is now offered to them in rich measure. God's goodness and mercy is great; he wipes out all guilt on earth where the heart lovingly turns to the Father - then the love for the Lord has first become alive in man, then his previous life will appear despicable to him, he will remember his previous failed life in deepest repentance, and this repentance and the will to henceforth be devoted to the Lord, cleanses him from all guilt.

So the past will always dissolve into nothing when it is replaced by the present in such a way that this present corresponds to the true purpose and goal for which man was allowed to embody himself on earth. Such transformations of the past life are an inestimable advantage for the earthly man .... the strength and the grace of God is granted to him in such a measure that he can also carry out the complete detachment from the past life with good will .... Only remorse will remain with him, but this will only have a beneficial effect on the inner formation of his being.

Whoever once recognizes his sins and implores the Lord for mercy in his deepest heart, will be received very lovingly by the Savior as a repentant sinner, and in all mildness and goodness the Lord says: "Your sins are forgiven ....". He thus erases the debt of the past and takes the repentant child to His Father's heart .... He blesses it a thousand times over, because heaven rejoices more over one sinner who has recognized and found the Lord than over ninety-nine righteous people ....

Amen

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Success of the researchers .... and inner voice .... Link .... Predictions ....

B.D. 0421 from May 16th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Recognize the Divine Spirit .... In connection with the all-encompassing Divine love, by absorbing the spiritual truths, you acquire a treasure of spiritual goods that surpasses all human knowledge .... Never can the deep intervention of the Divinity into the life on earth be recognized with the earthly mind .... Only he who listens and ponders in the heart, will reach there where truth is hidden.

My child, put yourself in the position of a serious researcher and enlightenment desiring person, who in all love for truth does not find the right understanding from the simple tones of the heart's voice .... he has been offered an abundance of teachings, and his effort was dedicated to the full investigation of these .... The most childlike form, the most urgent heartfelt plea to the heavenly Father .... that is what all these researchers for the truth are missing. Years of work cannot bring them success, when the most intimate devotion to the Savior in a short time brings the earthly child .... Oh far above such wisdom researchers! .... Even if your sense and aspiration is good .... how easily could you achieve all this, and by which detours do you seek to reach the goal ....

For the spiritual activity is always only conditioned by love. Withdraw from life on earth, and desire to take part in the spiritual life .... and gates will be opened to you, and you will look into an environment which can satisfy you far more than empty science, which was built up and rationally explained only on intellectual knowledge. Thus the spiritual maturity begins to develop in you far earlier than can ever happen through wise and trained forces .... The Lord distributes where faith is deep, and only this inner faith guarantees you also the understanding of His teachings ....

For the number of those to whom this area is alien, who strictly adhere to earthly boundaries and could not yet feel the extraordinary power of the Godhead in their hearts, a day will also come when the truth will be revealed to them .... a day when everything that is normal, will be changed .... a day where their thinking activity stops and they will only look and not be able to understand .... and then the human mind will deal with these problems, and suddenly a wonderful experience begins in their hearts ....

The seeker will be considered and find .... The seeker will recognize, and all this out of love .... And to those who love, the Lord approaches and directs them in the wisest way. They fall under His spell, from which they cannot escape, because they must love when the love of the Lord embraces them .... Words of incomparable power and effect will flow from the mouth of him who lets himself be guided without hesitation by the love of the Lord .... and such a man must then do completely as the Lord prescribes .... Why then do you want to doubt, you who will then recognize the power of love in yourselves ....

That is man's noblest task, to be a link between heaven and earth .... to have no will of his own except that which the Godhead demands. These are the fingers of the Lord .... They convey the word that the Lord Himself gives to the children on earth .... they are the spiritual helpers for building for eternity .... Life on earth without Divine representatives of the highest will, would be much more difficult to live ....

The Lord has wisely mentioned the mediators between heaven and earth in order to speak through them to His own. The one who addresses himself directly to the heavenly Father in all intimacy also has the task of communicating the extraordinary grace that he receives to his dear neighbor. But it is precisely this task that is so rarely recognized .... The will of the Lord must visibly intervene there, and this will happen in a short time. Forces inexplicable to mankind will be expressed, but will bring enlightenment to the spiritual seeker.

Those who serve Me will certainly hear nothing else but My highest own voice, and no power on earth will be able to drown out this My voice .... And because this time is near, I again urge you all to pay attention to everything that comes from above .... and not to slacken in wrestling and praying .... Because this will give you strength to remain loyal to Me and to recognize every event as My will.

Those who are devoted to the Lord are indeed small in number .... but where they work in My name, they will achieve great things and spread light that will shine in a wide radius. They shall be strengthened when they need it because who fights for My kingdom will be strong against the enemy .... The power will continuously flow to him .... until evil is defeated and good has triumphed. And those whom I send to you, you shall hear, and you shall feel in your heart who are Mine. Because where My power connects with the earth, there the earthly child accomplishes extraordinary things through Me .... and when you hear these, you will want to enter My kingdom .....

Amen

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Connection between the earth and the beyond ....

B.D. 0422 from May 17th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

So begin and notice: It has always been the Lord's wise intention to establish a connection between heaven and earth, but one thing remains hidden from people for their benefit, that the world of spirits on the other side clearly reveals itself to everyone who longs for it. For that would not be in the Divine order. The connection can only be made when a completely mature man turns to the hereafter with sincere intentions. Therefore, attempts to establish communication will always be aborted and abandoned .... People lack full earnestness, spiritual maturity and the will to serve.

And again a whole army of spirit-beings is close to earth, which would like to make themselves perceptible to the earthly children in every imaginable way .... As often as these beings now have the opportunity to make themselves known to people, and a connection is established with them on earth, also lower elements crowd up, which likewise seek this way to be able to follow their drives, and just these are the cause that such connections soon dissolve .... in such a case, the good beings then seriously regret not being able to communicate.

The power of these beings can only work in agreement with the earthly children. If they have a really good will, then a good understanding is soon achieved, and the more intensely focused the earthly child concentrates on the pure-spiritual, the more perfect will be the announcements, which it then receives through the spirit-beings .... So the creature of God on earth has it perfectly in his own hands to create a spiritual connection with the hereafter .... which is of such extraordinary blessing to himself.

If man convinces himself that Godly power is expressed in every spiritual atmosphere, and if he accepts that only by means of this power a connection can be achieved, then it will be understandable to him that the beings seeking connection on this side as well as on the other side, must also be permeated by God if they are also allowed this power. Because the highest being with it's work cannot possibly place itself at the disposal of a God-averted being.

Therefore everything that is started and carried out with God and in God, will be crowned with the highest success .... While other motives are the cause and other God-averse forces intervene and are active, there the basis is given for error, for conscious deception and consequently for a rejection of faith in a connection from this world to the hereafter ....

Strive for true knowledge .... A being matured in this way then possesses an extraordinary wealth of power, because it may continue to draw this [power] from the connection with the good spirit-beings lovingly granted by God ....

Amen

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(Before the headland) ....

B.D. 0423 from May 18th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Behold, My child, for you the way is marked out, and every movement of your heart points you this way. What you are beginning, I have ordered wisely, since you want to serve Me. Now, however, many an hour it will seem to you as if you are distanced from Me and stand alone .... For every such feeling I have My plan, because only through perpetual fighting and wrestling, your will to reach Me is tempered .... So I also brought you here and record this day especially blessed for you .... What you receive into your heart, shall teach you love .... There will only be few who remain completely in Me, but these few shall stick together and be shone upon by My sun of mercy.

Physical well-being is so secondary if you can only quench your spiritual thirst and hunger. And in the vicinity of this My servant on earth, you will mature and always rise to higher regions because you are destined to stand up for My word, and again it is My love that brings you together and guides you. So try, My child, to accept every word received as spoken to you .... Behold, your spirit is willing, but you do not yet grasp the whole depth of My love. Every word will reach you only after firm will and constant struggle .... But if your heart first holds intimate love for Me, then you will hear what I want to convey to you .... And then you will tremble with happiness; an unspeakable feeling of bliss will fill you, and you will always only want to hear My words.

Now however still an unmanageable restraining feeling presents itself to your heart's door .... which has it's reason in a still insufficiently strong faith .... See, where you can strengthen this, you will also lose all inhibitions, the words will quickly and easily force themselves into your heart, you will receive them with brightness of mind and a rejoicing heart .... Oh seek to attain this faith, let yourself be guided and directed by all that I send you .... Nothing is without intention, therefore let go of all anxiety. I will also give you joy today and give you spiritual food, which is to strengthen you and bring your little heart closer to Me.

Release yourself from every doubt, put everything trustingly into the hands of your Savior, Who protects you and guides you safely on all paths. Hold on to only true confidence .... what My tongue speak is always only meant for the right ears, and these My words are to penetrate also there where it is necessary .... The best fighters for Me and My teachings I also have to give exceptional consideration because you humans fear and tremble even if you are of good will .... But I still know your troubles, and when you call on Me for help, then I am already for you and give what you ask.

I want to consider you, My child, richly and unceasingly .... just always insert yourself into everything what I let happen around you, and you will soon be on a height, which still today appears unreachable to you. When the day comes to an end and you surrender yourself intimately to your heavenly Father, a ray of enlightenment will be bestowed upon you .... then lift up your eyes to Him who desires the salvation of your and everyone's souls from the most deeply loving Father-heart. For His eye watches over all of you who are His children, and where your heart asks for grace, this grace is bestowed upon him without measure. Take therefore care of each other and you will mature .... you will recognize the Divine greatness more and more and can truly be called My children ....

Amen

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Father words ....Love .... Appearance .... Participation of those in the hereafter ....

B.D. 0424 from May 18th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Behold My child, in a short time you will see Me in the light .... you will be blinded by the light and your eyesight will be taken away for a few moments, but in your heart a flame will ignite that will never be extinguished. Thus I will draw near to My children whose hearts desire Me. See, it is so difficult for you to recognize only because all your longing cannot yet be found in the image of your Savior .... For the time of your earthly existence you are still held captive by an indefined trembling. You cannot yet comprehend the actual essence of love .... everything is still undissolved in you, and when love is not yet recognized for what it actually is, also the heart will not be able to free itself from the heaviness of the earth.

My will never allows a violent ignition of love .... it must be quietly drawn into the heart and yet anchor itself so firmly in it .... It has an oversized power, which it draws from the Divine Love .... Desire and fulfillment are one, because God gives unceasingly where His nearness is longed for. My child, let your eyes see what will make you happy forever .... Let your truth-hungry heart refresh itself with spiritual light .... The food shall be offered to it fully, and body and soul shall be refreshed ....

What shall man still desire, if he once enjoyed the favor of the Savior? .... What you then feel in the heart, will lift you above all earthly things .... And this moment will let you recognize the oversized love of the Father for His children .... and if this has become understandable to you, then there is no more fear .... neither about faith nor about love .... Then everything, everything will be only a proof of eternal grace ....

All those who are well-disposed towards you in the hereafter look forward to this act of grace with joy, they know that you have been accepted into the chosen circle of those who serve God on earth .... they desire to care for you constantly, and for their work they hope for a supporting power in you, if you, blessed by the love of the Lord, surrender to your office .... They all want to take care that your spiritual work progresses and has a successful effect on all who hear you. To possess the heart of the Savior .... To be made happy by His love is the most precious gift that the Father can give to His children, because in possession of this love, all life in this earthly valley will appear miraculously lovely to them. Their own spirit will unfold and only always strive for union with the Father-Spirit, because everything unites in Divine love.

The farther work will become easy for you, if only love dwells in your heart. So prepare this your heart that it may receive Him who will offer you an unspeakable happiness and receive you to Himself .... Who wants to take you into His Divine heart and teach you love .... The eternal sun will then rise in you and fill you completely with it's mild light, it's warmth and bright shine and only then will you realize that the greatest wonder is love .... Therefore, My child, take not of when the Divine Being approaches you and receive Him deeply, humbly and in holy faith, and offer Him your heart willingly and without restraint, then you will be filled with fervent love-power and your faith will strengthen ....

Amen

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Shaping the youth .... Intervention by God ....

B.D. 0425 from May 20th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

You will be faced with a task that requires great willpower to solve, and therefore it should be strengthened again and again through our teachings. Thus today the Saviour has given you a teaching that refers to the inner development of all political measures, which have the sole purpose of strengthening power but depriving the people of all their freedom. These are the measures that are used in order to fully get hold of the youth.

Just in these times, where the young person should reflect on his inner life .... where he should begin to look at nature in a Divine sense .... where he should learn to look at all the wonderful things in the world with spiritual eyes .... It is precisely during this time that he is called upon to perform mechanical exercises that suffocate or atrophy all spirituality in him .... A world-view is forced upon them, the whole purpose of which is to eliminate everything of the future from their thought-life, that could have a positive effect on the refinement of the soul ....

They start with the idea of forming a completely new line of thought .... this results in a degeneration of all spiritual thinking .... The train of thought of the youth will only move in those areas that are much more in accordance with the trivial demands on the youth .... but they can never bring the maturity of the soul. Because the youth knows nothing of a soul and it's destiny, or sees such an enlightenment only as a fable, to which a person of the present time do not need to pay any attention, the task which is placed today on the youth, misses the spiritual sense completely ....

Everything that is striven for is only development for the earthly life, but not in the least a promoting influence on the spiritual constitution of the young person. The still existing reasoning is remodeled without consideration .... the responsible youth leaders consider their work full of satisfaction, consisting of a completely earthly shaping of the youthful soul, but blocks the way to the free search for the truth and deprives it of every opportunity to find or strive for food beneficial to the spirit. How are these earthly children to be guided .... how is the work to be accomplished in them, which opens another direction of thought for them ....

Depending on the length of time, these people take root in a soil that is not very suitable for developing of the right spirit. On the contrary, they will use everything to expose any teaching that bears witness to God and to the descent of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, to earth for the purpose of the redemption of mankind. They will strive to present this His teaching - which should be the most holy for all - to be completely invented, and this is the worst time for the youth, which should be opposed with all power and will. And the Lord will therefore also with this, pull up the lever ....

He will also bring judgment against those who are up to such a deforming of the youth .... Where should God's love reveal itself more vividly than with those who are entrusted to Divine love and whom the enemy is now trying to wrest .... The Lord does not let go of them so easily .... He will protect the young mind .... He will also put the question into their hearts: What is the purpose of the whole earthly existence in the nature of man? .... And with the help of the Lord, this question will not be lightly dismissed. But this question will be answered in their minds, and the systematic extermination of all spiritual experience will suffer a strong blow through the will of the Lord.

And then .... take note, you unbelievers, how ever more strongly the impulse will become apparent in the youth to recognize a higher Being .... take notice that an ever stronger resistance will make itself felt and finally demands freedom for all inner life .... Because God does not forsake those who remember Him, and will especially take care of the youth, so that they do not suffer harm to their souls. Therefore wait for the time which is no longer far away and will free you from the gagging of the spirit .... Because all this happens in the will of the Lord, who will gather His children around Himself, to give them knowledge of their actual purpose, so that they may pursue it and escape the banishment of the world through it.

Amen

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The sages of antiquity ....

B.D. 0426 from May 21st 1938, taken from Book No. 9

The greatest sages of the world were hidden in antiquity, and yet the laws of creation were closed to them as a book with seven seals ...., like the secret code that inspired posterity to think diligently and yet could not be deciphered. As versatile as their knowledge was, the eternal problem between God and humans was unsolvable to them .... an enigmatic veil covered everything that reached into the mystical .... Even the wise Socrates completely wrongly concluded that there were undeniable natural forces, which, however, acted from within themselves, uninfluenced by any power that determined them ....

The Divine work as such and the conscious ability to serve this Divinity was, according to the opinion of these sages, something completely unproven and had to be denied, because in no epoch of time was the urge for truth stronger than in that very time of the sages. At that time God also awakened people who at certain intervals brought a glimmer of light among their peers and expressed themselves as follows: that the world with all that lives and exists witnesses to the work of a Deity and that this Deity expresses Itself in all life .... from the smallest creature up to man ....

The opponents could not argue against such wisdom, since they very clearly recognized the extraordinary power inherent in those who proclaimed the truth. This power was always used where people were in danger of being subject to a complete supremacy of matter .... In times of deep spiritual blindness, when spiritual night surrounded mankind, a ray of light broke through again and the Lord found His way into the hearts of the people. Thus each epoch has also felt the nearness of the Lord on earth, both before and after the great work of redemption of Christ ....

At all times, only few remain devoted to the Divine Lord and Master in such a way that they are able to hear the voice of the Lord. But these have always been blessed at all times. By the will of an earthly child showing such a readiness which is expressed in receiving Divine communications, the truths of the eternal creation was made accessible to people on earth, and therefore the earth did not remain unconsidered since antiquity .... it was always and eternally the same .... Brightness of spirit is given to those researching the deepest depths of their hearts, and the eternal Godhead was also always recognized by these, although this truth could not be passed on as a teaching, but had to be recognized again and again by each person himself.

So still a number of beings have attained spiritual maturity at all times, which now again and again continuously teach the children on earth and let them receive every suggestion to also seek and research in the heart for the eternally immutable and all-wise ruling Deity ....

Amen

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Undermining the teaching of Christ ....

B.D. 0427 from May 22nd 1938, taken from Book No. 9

The Lord's vision goes far ahead, and the threads of fate run together everywhere into eternity. Put the axe to the roots of a tree, and you inevitably have to cut down the whole tree .... and in the same way a whole building will collapse if you would break down the foundation walls .... and where work is constantly being done to undermine the building of God, which is the teaching of Jesus Christ ...., there the whole of humanity must inevitably perish, because eternal life is based on this teaching alone ....

What once the Lord and Master clearly expressed to mankind, was the constant commandment to follow all His teachings. During the time when He walked on earth, His teachings accompanied and supported countless miracles and gave the unbelievers visible knowledge of the fact that God's Being and supreme power hid Himself in the human shell of Jesus and spoke through it to the people.

A work as powerful as the teachings revealed to mankind through Jesus could never be the work of a human .... the Divine power of His words, combined with the deepest love for the people, testifies to the fact that it was the Lord Himself who spoke to the people .... and such a work, the Word of God .... which existed from eternity and will remain in eternity .... shall now be destroyed through the will of man .... The world itself will rather fall apart before mankind would accomplish this ....

And where someone nevertheless wants to lend a hand and will try to tackle the work of destruction, there he will rob himself of the vital nerve and slowly perish both psychologically and physically. For would you then fight against the Lord with your own hands and not be defeated? Like false friends, you will be advised by those who think they are justified in having an enlightening effect on this earthly life.

These are themselves so selfish beyond all measure that they also seek their own benefit in this striving .... that they themselves presumptuously issue commandments in an unmistakably calculating sense .... that they furthermore selfishly want to make people understand that God Himself never gives Himself to the earthly beings to recognize, except through the visible activity of nature .... a people spiritually impressed like this, rendering the connection of God with humans through Jesus Christ only credible in such a way, will be robbed of the power of their own will and the energy of this people would be weakened for unforeseeable times.

However, this view will presently not allow for unlimited power, for the people would rather keep the commandments of God in mind if they believe .... and they would live strictly according to them. But this would then be a disadvantage for the earthly rulers who want to dominate everything .... it would set a sure limit to their power. They therefore seek to present all Divine work as an earthly illusion in order to campaign against it. According to Divine counsel, Divine teaching must endure this admission in order to rise again purified and with renewed strength - and to assert itself all the more strongly in distant future times. And whoever shall lay hands on the word of God, shall perish in body and soul. But His Word will remain unchanged until all eternity ....

Amen

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Explanatory note to no. 410 ....

B.D. 0428 from May 23rd 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Thus walking on earth is nothing more than a transition into the eternal regions, and again and again it is man himself who determines his own condition in those regions. If he has spent his life on earth in constant striving for spiritual goods, he will never have to fear that life in the other world will be a burden for him .... he will never have to fear the hour of death and will only leave the valley of the earth to swap it for heavenly realms, which will appear incomparably lovely to him.

But the inner return to God must have taken place .... the union with the highest Being must have preceded if man is to reach this state of mind, which guarantees him a complete dissolving of his covering. In the other case, however, the human shell will not separate so easily from the soul .... Although the soul has left it's earthly body, it is still not free ....

The spirit's covering still clings to it .... it is not completely free, but still prevented by the same fetters as on earth to be able to swing freely up into higher regions, and this state will then be the same as the state on earth, because the soul in the beyond still walks in the same ignorance and obduracy .... it is often unconscious that it has already left the earthly valley .... Therefore your spirit always finds the sphere equal to itself, and when the soul has already reached the state of maturity on earth, then it also, at the time of bodily death, immediately enters light-filled spheres ....

It then does not first have to go the endlessly long way of struggle in the hereafter, which is similar that of the earth, but cannot be overcome as easily as on earth. Do not fall therefore into the temptation to believe that over there the possibility still remains for you to mature the soul .... This is far more difficult, and unspeakably remorseful is the recognition of the unused time on earth. So it is always more advisable to remember the hereafter with horror as an unfinished being and then to restlessly strive for the greatest possible perfection already on earth, than to indulge in inertia in the hope that one can make up for what has been missed here ....

Life on earth with all it's misery and suffering is nothing compared to the struggle of such imperfect souls in the hereafter; for you are not given such possibilities as on earth .... Your struggle will be far more difficult until all human earthly things have completely separated from your spirit and then your spirit has reached the degree that it can be absorbed into a new kingdom of light. Thus it is to be understood that the state of the human is passed on to the soul until it has reached the degree of maturity determined for it ....

Amen

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Love ....

B.D. 0429 from May 23rd 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Those who love Me are in My grace .... My child, in your heart the embers that have Me at their center, have not yet been kindled .... The fire of love is a very tiny flame for the children on earth, to whom the highest and holiest is still hidden .... for those who have not yet grasped Me in My whole Being. As much as the intimacy with which I draw all who are Mine to My heart is still unknown to you, so also is the power of My love still unknown to you, and when this will expresses itself, heaven and earth will be opened to you, and love will ignite in you with such violence that you would almost believe yourself to have perished ....

Such a desire for your Redeemer will befall you that life on earth seems unbearable to you and you no longer demand anything but to be united with Me. And then it is to show itself whether you are able to bring Me a sacrifice .... whether you are content for the time on earth with the consciousness of My love turned towards you and want to be active for Me on earth for the sake of this love when your time has come .... I will not, never ever leave you and am with you always, but you must first acquire on earth that measure which is to bring you the highest reward in eternity .... the sonship of God with all rights handed down from the Father and most indescribable bliss.

If you want to carry this life on earth, I will give you strength through My love .... but you must first recognize who I am, only then will you be able to love Me, as all My children are to love Me .... You, My child on earth, walk in such exceedingly gracious ways, and portals will be opened to you, which will reveal to you much hidden things .... You walk in the light and seek Me daily and hourly .... I will let you find Me, and I will open the sight of Your eyes for you, that they may know Me, that thou may henceforth love Me with all the heat that thy heart is able of .... I must first completely take hold of you ....

I must let your desire for Me become ever greater .... only then will I quench your thirst and come to you Myself .... and awaken in you the holiest feeling .... burning, irredeemable love, which lasts until all of eternity. Those who seek Me will find Me .... and those who want to serve Me are not to rule, yet nothing is possible without love, because it alone brings you closer to eternity. So desire only warmly and dearly to know Me, and I will answer your prayer and give you a taste of heaven's bliss, so that you may eternally desire nothing else but to live and die for your Saviour ....

Amen

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Infinity .... Eternity .... Size of the work of creation .... Creative spirits ....

B.D. 0430 from May 24th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

The heavens praise the eternal glory .... The world is, spiritually speaking, an edifice of unimagined greatness and power, for the Lord has created everything on such a scale that millions upon millions of beings are lost in it as nothing .... Often the opinion is held that in view of this immeasurable size the army of creating spirits has only a limited effect .... that therefore this infinity is not everywhere created with beings and their necessary environment, that this creation of God is rather a further completely lifeless space which must only correspond to it's purpose in many millennia and only then host countless beings ....

The people on earth cannot grasp the enormous size of the work of creation .... just as little the determination of each particle of the universe. Where the Deity works, human comprehension is insufficient to grasp this work in it's full magnitude. The earth holds only the tiniest part of the beings and creations of God, but infinity has countless such small worlds, all created by God's power and will .... and not one of them will need to do without the wise guidance and constant care of the Divine Creator; everywhere the Deity is equally active, always again and again training beings, to whom the same strength, power, and willpower is inherent and to whom then the same work is incumbent - to continuously create in the spirit of the eternal Creator.

Thus all walk since eternity in the same law, and this will take its progress into all eternity .... An endless enlivening of all worlds will never let the Divine Creator rest idly, and it will be left to every being to form itself in such a way that it can create and produce in the same way and through this again becomes a part of the eternal Godhead - and thus the same power dwells within it, which is expressed in the miracles of the Divine creation.

Thus the terms infinity and eternity will become more easily comprehensible to you, because an endlessly long time is necessary to reach this state, and again a limit cannot be set by a limited space for the development-potential of the beings .... The voice of the Lord constantly calls out to all these beings, and whoever hears this voice will be a true child of the Father, be with the Father, and will work like Him for eternity ....

Amen

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Appearance of the Lord .... Strengthening in suffering .... Suspension Railway ....

B.D. 0431 from May 24th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

See, My child, everywhere My power rules .... every second, innumerable spirit-beings are active, which place themselves into My service for the salvation of the souls of people on earth, and I am before all these with My will, directing and intervening in all events. Who there hears My voice, is a child cared for by Me, which can be sure of My help at any time. You are standing at a time of inner disruption on earth, and this time requires many armed forces which stand up for Me, and only the greatest love for Me enable these fighters to take upon themselves all troubles, which is the lot of My followers.

Then I Myself will appear because they need extraordinary power, which only I Myself can and want to give them. Do not be afraid, you who want to serve Me, your lot will certainly appear difficult to the world, but I Myself keep pain and suffering away from you .... You have Me .... and he who has Me in his heart does not feel any suffering and does not fear bodily death. He longs only for Me and in this love, he can achieve unbelievable things .... This shall be My consolation for you and for your love-desiring heart .... The time is near, and your heart will rejoice when it is fulfilled ....

All of life resembles a suspension railroad .... Where on rugged, uneven slopes often no-one's feet can pass .... where people are effortlessly transported high above the ground .... which means that the will of the Father also promotes the spirit of those who entrust themselves to Him, where in a natural way a stop is required .... where the spirit is gagged and can hardly find it's way up. Let the heavenly Father take care in all things ....

His Fatherly love creates paths for you everywhere which lead to Him, if you only pay attention to these paths and shrink back from no danger .... But the essence of the Godhead will remain hidden to no-one who only calls for Me in the heart .... It will be revealed to him to his highest bliss, and from now on fight for the Lord and Saviour, who has taken up My image in himself .... And this fight will be a victorious one, because My fighters are blessed by Me ....

Amen

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Recognition in the Hereafter .... Disguise of the light-beings .... Self-reproach ....

B.D. 0432 from May 25th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

At all times you are to remember those who have already long since left the earthly valley and had to enter the hereafter in an immature state. They has indeed landed a hard lot; they cannot find their way in the surroundings granted to them ..... they quarrel with themselves and are so very unhappy, that Love must meet them to redeem them .... i.e. to help them to find the right way out of their darkness also there .... Where now there the soul fights for light, it is guided rightly and inevitably advances.

But the time until recognition is so unspeakably hard for this soul. Here on earth, God gave them grace upon grace, so that they should find themselves in faith in the Lord Jesus Christ .... There they must still, much more from own strength, strive to reach .... i.e. with own will strive for this recognition, because the strength must as yet be supplied to them by the loving activity of the higher spirit-beings or by commemoration in love in prayer on earth. There is such a great difference between a perfect spirit-being and the soul entrusted to it, that out of such fullness of light it would be impossible to charitably influence the soul around which is still the darkest night.

It would inevitably declare the light, but it has to perish under such sudden fullness of light, and a complete purification of the soul would not take place. So the light-being is commanded to accept a disguise, which makes the interaction easier for the poor soul .... And in this garment, which is only slightly lighter than that of the erring soul, the light-spirit achieves to connect with it and now seeks to bring it into recognition of it's situation .... Many possibilities are offered and described to it, which are useful for the improvement of it's situation. The soul, which has already become so hopeless in it's darkness, embraces everything with the most intimate desire to just free itself from the present situation, and so the aspiration after the light begins ....

The condition of such naked souls are often pitiful; they are left to themselves, and remember their failed lives in agony and self-reproach. And an exceedingly great work of love is done on these beings when a little help is brought to them, which people can do so exceedingly easily and abundantly if they remember in prayer these lightless, hard-pressed souls, which on earth, sure out of their own fault rejected all favours offered to them and now exceedingly gratefully accept every smallest help, which makes their situation more bearable for them.

If you want to acquire an extraordinary measure of gratitude, then come to the aid of these souls. They languish in darkness and cannot redeem themselves without it .... and they will also never be admitted to circles of light until they themselves have the firm will to wrestle themselves from darkness with all their strength and striving for bright regions .... And in order to be able to summon up this will from within yourselves, you are to be helpful to these poor beings and, in perpetual concern, remember them in prayer, so that the light may also penetrate there and innumerable beings may be redeemed through love ....

Amen

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Closeness of God .... Earthly goods .... Renunciation and sacrifice ....

B.D. 0433 from May 25th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Bring to the Lord all that is dear to you and worthy of you, and you will be allowed to exchange them for far more beautiful things and receive them from His hand. But those who take pleasure in earthly things and do not want to give anything away will also be chained to matter .... They live one day at a time, but their hearts will never find the sweet peace that is only given to those earthly children, who willingly part with everything that is earthly ....

To become worthy of nearness to God, is such priceless goodness that all earthly goods collapse into nothing before it. Blinded by the fictitious goods of the earth, people find it difficult to separate themselves from it; they only always strive to increase these goods, and do not see thereby that the spiritual death accompanies these .... that they are led through a long, dark tunnel, which often have no end during their time on earth ....

The sun, the brightly shining daylight, they carelessly give up for a dazzling work, which however brings their spirit a dark night .... and thus the spiritual death - if humans do not come to the spiritual realization and sacrifice everything for this in order to attain for it the light of the Divine mercy-sun. Heaven's highest honors will be bestowed on those who never sought honor on earth .... and heaven's highest pleasure will be their share, who on earth willingly gave up for the sake of the Lord ....

Thus the Lord repays a thousand times what is sacrificed for His sake, and He considers each one according to his deeds on earth .... but each one will have to consider that he does not prefer the goods of the earth to those of eternity .... Because earthly property caters only for the well-being of the body and provides you with purely bodily pleasures .... it gives you reputation only before humans .... for eternity, it is completely worthless, yes far rather obstructive, because it will make the way upward more difficult for you .... but a heart that gives everything and has no joy in earthly possessions and recognizes only the Lord as a desirable possession, will be considered in all fullness in eternity and will increase it's spiritual possessions and wisely provide for all the needs of the soul, and it will, because it gave, receive unmeasured what will bring it highest bliss ....

Amen

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Will - Faith - Knowledge ....

B.D. 0434 from May 26th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Only the most perfect being of light will be able to penetrate into the deepest depth of Divine wisdom, but mankind will be granted an extraordinary favour when it is given knowledge of things, which otherwise remain hidden from the world, and this is allowed for the purpose that all those human children to whom the wisdom of God grants a view into infinity, are to find themselves into ever deepening faith. Faith in it's strength can do everything .... Those who are willing to believe will be helped so that their weak faith will reach the strength of a wall, and only the unbelieving mind will refuse to accept everything that the Lord God dearly offers to His own.

Look at nature, how everything is formed in a regular course according to the will of the Creator and passes away again .... and how many people pass by it carelessly .... All these miracles give them not even an indication of the Divine work. To these, signs of even much greater kind could be given, they would also experience all wonderful things without any impairment of faith as long as there wants to be any human - i.e. earthly - explanation for it. Because what then would force their faith, would be useless for their spiritual progress.

That is why the Lord always chooses the earthly children for His revelations, who are willing to accept .... who want to believe and so the precondition is given for researching in the wisdom of God. These also have to master the doubts wanting to shake the faith again and again as the strongest enemy .... but the will to have faith is stronger, then it will also soon overcome all counter-currents .... and then there will be no borders to investigate the depths of Divine wisdom.

Very few are able to realize to what extent a strong faith helps them to acquire undreamt-of knowledge about things that are hidden from the earthly man who lives without faith .... And that is why the number of those who live in ignorance will always be far greater, because only a small part of mankind is able to penetrate to deep faith. But you have this in your own hands .... it is always prayer that takes you up step by step .... and where you cannot believe deeply and yet are of good will, there pray out of a sincere heart. If you still have faith in the power of prayer, you will be helped .... The help of the Lord and your own will go hand in hand .... And you must achieve what you ask for.

The love of the Lord is so great that it very eagerly fulfills the wishes of the earthly children on earth, when the driving force for these wishes is the will to reach the Lord. And what knowledge is imparted to you, has to form your faith deeper and deeper, and so you reach through the grace of the Lord, knowledge about things which otherwise remained hidden to you, but are imparted through deep faith to everyone who wants to extend his knowledge through Divine wisdom. And what is offered to you is always only an outpouring of Divine grace to make the path of life easier for you who believe - and to make you into beings of light in all reverence and love for the Lord ....

Amen

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Agreements from acquaintances ....

B.D. 0435 from May 26th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Do not let your faith in your God be robbed from you .... the Lord and Savior knows better what is necessary for you, and He will therefore never hesitate to intervene by means of His power and to raise up an army of warriors who are to defend His word and His name on earth. This is why the call has gone out to willing children on earth, and the wise followed the call.

The earthly valley accommodates many people who want to extinguish the glimmer of light that shines for them because they shy away from the light and believe they are walking more protected in the darkness. Because the light illuminates too glaringly their errors and weaknesses .... they wrap it with the coat of darkness, then they feel better and can follow the wrong better. Suffering for these humans is if they are made aware on their wrongful life, and they would far rather like to remain in the old condition than to think of a serious transformation of their inner being. Then the greatest light has no ennobling influence; they prefer to withdraw again into their twilight state and are only ever active when it is necessary to achieve earthly success. The spiritual progress of the soul is not particularly important to them ....

But you must resist temptations of this kind. It is not any spoken thoughts that reflects eager reflection, but the contradiction is based only on the concern that constant writing might deprive you of the ability to be active in the same way as up to now. The commandment of charity is to be applied and obeyed, but where will a person who thinks only of himself observe such things ....

And already this love for one's neighbor should express itself there, then every proclamation would also have the power to penetrate there .... the words of God would have to resound in the hearts and trigger a feeling of well-being, but then people put themselves into a kind of resistance and then turn away inwardly because the truth does not seem quite so bearable to them and they therefore prefer to remain in the previous ignorance where they feel more comfortable. Therefore leave them the will until they confess it of their own accord, but continue to do your duty, asthe heart and love of the Lord commands you .... for the blessing will not fail to come ....

Amen

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De-religionizing the State ....

B.D. 0436 from May 27th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

So the people want to initiate an unmistakable de-religionization of the state that will promote every evil. One should always bear in mind that the State must necessarily collapse in itself when the simplest teaching about God and His justice is torn from the hearts of the people. All earthly order is first of all the consequence of the inner order of God. The peoples of all nations know that none of the laws given by the state could be fulfilled if the mentality of this people was not first judged by a doctrine of the God-being above all earthly, so that it complies with a fulfillment of the laws.

A hard being will always resist all desire for a higher power .... Now first transform mankind into compliant, willingly conforming beings, then they will also comply with what is desired of them. And nothing else can make a person as soft and pliable than the doctrine of faith. And so a God-fearing people will also always strive far more to fulfill all earthly laws than a people from whom one has taken away the belief in justification before the eternal Godhead and retribution after death.

Just a brief reference that such people will also soon no more fear an earthly punishment is enough, because in it each sense of responsibility is slowly suffocated .... This depends on the attitude towards God .... a higher being might still be feared, but not an earthly force .... if all faith would be taken from the people in retaliation. Then the passions would rather violently ignite in a human soul, they will want to seize equally unbound elements of all possession or unrestrainedly also destroy everything, because the urge for destruction is far more characteristic of such a faithless being than the urge to preserve ....

The further consequences of such a de-religionization would be that soon there would be no difference between people who are now still differently constituted. Because they would be averse to a supernatural Creator, i.e. they would no longer want to acknowledge Him, soon every soul would also develop only purely materially, there could never be any talk of spiritualization, and there would therefore also be no striving to reach a higher spiritual level .... So everything would remain unchanged soul-wise on earth and be influenced by earth forces and their unfavorable radiations. And the end of these beings would be a complete spiritual death after their earthly death.

But never has any authority been given unlimited power to have such a destructive effect on the soul of the earthly children and for this reason activity will begin in order to make people aware of the dreadful consequences of such a project .... What the peoples of the past had built up in ignorance and complete blindness as the doctrine of Deity, was infinitely more valuable than today's plan to tamper with an already existing Divine doctrine and try to eradicate it. Oh what misery this earth still has to suffer .... what misery the human children must still endure, so that they again will turn completely to this pure teaching! ....

And what a most evil crime is the planned destruction of this teaching .... to fight against everything that up to now has saved people from evil, if it was only recognized and fulfilled .... the many attempts of the alleged purification of teachings harmful to the people will fail, but what exists since eternity will arise again in clear purity, and cannot perish .... the pure word of Jesus Christ, the truly Divine teaching .... which alone can bring only blessings to mankind and lead them to their true destiny .... to eternal life ....

Amen

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Sacrificial works and works of love ....

B.D. 0437 from May 27th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Always do only good, and you will find recompense in Me because you draw Me closer to you with every good deed. It will simultaneously be given to your heart if you want to acquire Divine grace in unlimited measure, only you must always combine love with every good deed .... I regard only good works born in love ....

My dear child, how laboriously an understanding is often reached, that must make you think that your willingness is not always the same. In place of daily prayer you must also sometimes do an act of love, and the strength to receive will flow to you much more easily from this very work. What you people can achieve when you only want to practice love more actively, is so boundless, that you are already blessed by it on earth, but unfortunately you take far too little advantage of the opportunity to obtain such blessings ....

For the heavenly homeland you need so many works of love, because they help you there to enter the Kingdom of God .... Through love you all gain an advantage, but you cannot expect without works of love that the Lord speaks to you as a father speaks to his children, so pay attention to this .... If you offer one sacrifice to the Lord out of love for Him, you will also receive the strength to let others follow this first sacrifice, and your spirit, your faith and your confidence will be strengthened .... You will love the Divine Savior and will hear the words of love through Him.

But it must always be your heart speaking, it must be endeavored in recognition of the Divine truth from extremely noble motives to stop the need and misery of your fellow man, it must always only seek to alleviate suffering, to give peace and to serve .... people on earth and always, the Father in heaven .... Only he who serves, will become great in spirit - and he who exalts himself will be humbled. Only when you strive to serve yourselves in this way do you learn to know the power of love in all it's effects. You are destined to be allowed to rule a kingdom .... administer and create on earth in moderation according to earthly needs, but take care of the soul without interruption ....

And so you also have to be uninterruptedly active in love because without this, no-one can become perfect and also very little Divine favour can be granted, but favour is so valuable for you and it is so difficult when you miss it, that you therefore have to acquire it through the works of love if you want that the Father in heaven to let you feel His love likewise. It will be a wide field of activity for everyone, if love is to be carefully cultivated and to produce the fruits that will be beneficial to us both on earth and in the hereafter .... And now put yourself in God's care and trustingly place all your worries in His Divine Father's heart .... He will know how to comfort you and will not deny you His help.

Amen

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Flowers .... Transformation of the beings .... Work of creation ....

B.D. 0438 from May 28th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Accept the garden of the Lord as one of His dearest creations. The flowers in their oversized number and kinds, point you to the Lord's immeasurable power and love of creation. As often as a being embodies itself, a form is conditioned by the will of God, in which this being can dwell and work. In the same way also all the beings, to whom the power of God has made a visible work a duty, are again and again brought into forms, according to their activity determined for them. That now thousands and thousands of such beings have an exceedingly short life span, has it's justification in the fact that everything in the world must exist simultaneously .... the destructive urge on the other hand however, again causes a permanent change of these.

But since no concrete destruction of a being can take place, it must necessarily embody itself again and again in another form .... Therefore the rapid change in nature .... the eternal emergence and passing of all living beings .... (All heliotrophic plants embody the beings determined by the Father of the universe as carriers of the Spirit of God in the plant kingdom ....) Such a wonderful shaping of all creatures on earth has become the need of the creative spirit beings that they can manifest themselves in a thousandfold manners and diversities.

The all-time task of every being is to enliven the form so long until it itself has matured for the new formation in another form, and with the embodiment in every form also to fulfill the purpose of participating in God's work of creation, even if without will and unconsciously. Continuous reshaping then results in ever higher tasks, and such a being separates itself also ever more from the still clinging force downward .... it strives toward the light in every embodiment ....

And in manifold forms such beings are therefore given the opportunity to proclaim praise and glory to the Lord of creation, because every form is a true miracle .... but the human mind .... just because it is not able to recognize, often does not even pay attention to these miracles .... Where has the great love of the Lord expressed itself more gloriously than in the manifold design of that which covers the earth over and over .... be it in field and forest, on the mountains or in the valley, be it on the ground or in the air .... it is an immense work of God's omnipotence, which the Lord has put on display to mankind, and in the multiplicity of flowers alone lies hidden such a deep meaning that any one of them could occupy man's mind beyond all measure.

As humans who carelessly passes them by, you always want to consider that you have not recognized the value of flowers, but that all of you have also gone this way and you have also received your present form only after a long, long struggle, but that you first could only find the connection with the earth through your participation in the work of creation of the Lord through the embodiment in such smallest forms and smallest creatures. Therefore respect in every flower, in every blade of grass the eternal creator of heaven and earth .... and respect also the smallest beings, who through their embodiment serve the Lord of heaven and earth ....

Amen

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Danger of worldly pleasures ....

B.D. 0439 from May 28th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

The best weapon against evil is prayer, for already the request for strength saves you from being defeated. Everything on earth is a certain danger for man because it easily distracts thoughts from striving for eternity .... But the world must influence the senses of man with all stimuli, so that he can try out his resistance to it. But the easier the will to find the spiritual back, the more ineffective is the power of the earthly .... In all seclusion from the world, man can often prove himself far less than when the dangers rush at him from all sides, because spiritual power cannot develop and strengthen itself in such a way when little resistance is offered to it.

On the other hand an easy-going response to all temptations of life is an earnest danger for the spiritual state of man because this will always result in a flattening of the soul-life because never can one's intention be directed towards both the earthly and the spiritual life simultaneously. But in the true striving for spiritual maturity, the earthly child will always entrust itself to the Lord, Who leads it safely and lovingly through all dangers, and an overcome temptation is always a rung further towards the spiritual height ....

That is why we so often issue warnings and admonitions to you, to hold you back from everything that could be a hindrance on the way up, and you will always only have to recognize His loving care for you from this, because not one of you can pass these temptations without the power of prayer. The whole world with it's charms, on the other hand, will no longer harm you if you are so inflamed with love for the Divine Lord that you no longer demand anything on earth for yourselves, but seek and find fulfillment only in this love.

Then the danger of worldly pleasures is over for you because you then only know the one desire - to be near Him .... Every child longs for the Father, and His great love draws you to His heart .... but the world with it's joys is then no longer desirable for you .... pray that you may overcome all temptations .... pray ceaselessly for strength and for Divine grace ....

Amen

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Strong Faith .... Power of Judgement .... Prediction ....

B.D. 0440 from May 29th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Those who remain in Me will not need to do without My help .... says the Lord, and so also your heart will be cleansed from all doubt, so that a strong faith takes possession of you and you furthermore will stand completely in the service of the Lord. the Lord considers those who are His without distinction, but their own will can let them rise unbelievably high in the spiritual. Whatever will threaten you, the enemy can never harm you as long as you sincerely implore the heavenly Father for protection, because His will stands above everything, so also above the hostile powers, which are hindered to carry out their shameful plans as soon as in the child on earth ask for God's help - even if only in thought - when he begins to feel disgust for it.

Therefore never tremble and put yourselves trustingly in God's protection, and you will remain victorious in all temptations .... In the more distant decades, strange things are going to happen on and above the earth .... so the earth will gradually rebel against any excessive transformation through human hands .... This is a sign of the effect of the Divine will, which wants to point all consciously living beings the earth carries, upwards. This can only happen in such a way that also all these unusual phenomena have an inherent order .... because only by this one will recognize that one cannot escape from these things, and only then begin to notice and to think differently.

But only few will do this because the masses of humanity will also again try to give scientific explanations and will not draw any further benefit for their salvation from all these phenomena. It is up to each individual to decide where his mind wants to turn .... If the Lord would proceed too obviously, then soon everything would freeze in captured will .... as long as humans are able to think, they will also possess the power of free judgement and will express it at their discretion ....

A being on earth can never reach maturity if this power of judgement would be taken away from it or it would somehow be judged, because then free will would be switched off and spiritual maturity can no longer be striven for .... But how differently it behaves with those humans, who live only for the present .... their strength of judgement weakens significantly, they leave it completely to the world around them to judge what is uncomfortable for them .... They also thoughtlessly accept their judgement, but still again act according to their free will ....

And so again will only a small part be blessed .... and all phenomena will be beneficial only for this small part, but then these are to turn with all zeal to their actual purpose, because it would be only a short time, and unbelievably much and high can be achieved, if striving begins seriously. Do not let the hungry starve .... and enlighten all who are in darkness, who desires light from you .... You will be approached to hand out the bread to the starving, and it will be good because this will satisfy all who long for it, and it will give the strength to stand by their soul from now on, to redeem itself from matter and to turn completely to the spiritual.

These events will be such that many of them will try to start another life, because the recognition of an active Deity will come so suddenly over these earthly children, that also their whole thinking and striving will seem to have become different .... And then it just applies to utilize this condition of the people and to point everything out to them, which can anchor them firmly in the faith .... Heaven will give its blessing when you work for the glory of God and want to bring many sheep to Him .... A good will will always be blessed and bear good fruit ....

Amen

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Spirit of God .... Germ of the love of God ....

B.D. 0441 from May 30th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

Desire the Spirit of God .... Then immediately everything in you will become active .... the soul will turn away from matter, the flesh will renounce the fulfillment of it's desire .... love will enter your heart, and so you will feel how everything in you becomes light and bright. And all this, if you long out of your own free will for the union with God .... every being carries within itself the germ of the purest love of God .... Once it has risen in the heart, it then continues to grow, because the food that this little plant needs is supplied to it in the Word of God, which in it's purest form forces it's way into the hearts of people, where it is taken up and put to best use.

A heart fed in such a way will during the earthly existence certainly not need to live in want, it maintains itself in vitality and only needs to love with all the fervor it is capable of, then it will also soon be filled with the Divine Spirit, because the Father of the universe wants to reveal Himself to such people .... He nevertheless always selects those to such office, who carry the germ in themselves and care for the development of God's tender little plant. The Divine Teacher Himself taught His disciples on earth never to let themselves be captured by matter, and so often gave them proofs through the most diverse people, on whom He fulfilled His work of love and introduced them to His wisdom and teachings.

The greater the flame of love was in the hearts of the disciples, the brighter their spirit received what the Lord preached, and soon the disciples were so imbued with the Spirit of God that the work of the disciples on earth only expressed what was inherent in the Divine Master Himself .... an unknown power that expressed itself in deeds and words. Completely ignorant, simple people reached a degree of faith and maturity of the soul that undeniably surpassed their natural gifts .... but with them was the Spirit of God, and a visible influence of this Divine Spirit was everywhere where it was necessary to lead erring souls onto the right path.

So the Spirit of God is always needed where a people is to be awakened and guided, because man would lack all power, who would strive to bring teachings and wisdom only out of himself, which without the Spirit of God, would be only pure human work and as such transitory. Thus man can accomplish everything, the Divine Spirit works through him, and it will therefore always be man's most desirable task to prepare himself so that he is destined to receive the Divine Spirit - and full power then dwells within him, through which he can then accomplish what is pleasing in the will of the Lord and to himself ....

Amen

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The sun .... The spiritual sun .... The Divine mercy-sun ....

B.D. 0442 from May 31th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

A sunny spring morning will revive the spirit and give it the right food. For it is prophesied in the Lord that the Divine Voice will be heard, which stands in the Divine sun of grace .... and so, as a sunny day delights the heart of man, so the soul is highly happy when the sun of Divine love shines upon it .... It is an inexplicable process for you that the sun does not always express itself with it's power in the same way .... that it irradiates the earth valley at times with light and heat and again at times nothing of it's power and beauty can be noticed.

This is due to the fact that the earth is surrounded by atmospheric shells which prevent the sun's rays from reaching the earth or reduce their light and heat-power, so that the beneficial effect of the sun's rays is weakened and is felt only slightly by the earth .... It is exactly the same with the spiritual sun, which in it's elemental power wants to penetrate the human heart, wanting to shine through it with light and the warmth of love, and which often cannot work it's way through because of the many shells in which the soul languishes.

As the forces of nature .... Severe weather, rain, wind and storm .... have a purifying effect in the atmosphere surrounding the earth and allow the sun's power to penetrate, so must the human heart .... the soul .... remove all the dross around and within you and clear the way for the Divine mercy-sun to feel the effect of this invigorating and refreshing in the spirit.

To provide the spiritual sun unhindered entrance to the heart is a task, which should be quite recognized in life .... because you people on earth certainly long for purely physical sunshine and warmth .... how great is then the desire of the soul for the spiritual sun, which can come to it again only if the human will cooperates. How wonderfully the soul will then be able to unfold, and in what shining light it will stand .... and how soon it will then be receptive for the Divine Spirit, which can only stay in a completely purified and sun-clear soul. The sunlight and it's power cannot be replaced in equal effect .... and so nothing will be able to replace the power of the Divine mercy-sun ....

Amen

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